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The Broken Word (Record no. 12042)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780224084444
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 821.92
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Personal name Foulds, Adam
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245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Broken Word
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. England;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cape Poetry;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 60 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.The combination here of language and imagery that feel utterly contemporary, and subject matter - tribal violence and subsequent retribution - that seems almost Homeric, gives the narrative all the febrile energy of classical drama, re-charged and re-imagined. Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. Beginning with sporadic, brutal attacks by dispossessed Kikuyu on the British now occupying their land - attacks often executed with nothing more than traditional panga knives - the conflict escalates as the terrified British stop at nothing to re-impose order, eventually driving most of the Kikuyu population into the prison camps of what has become known as 'Britain's Gulag'. As Tom is propelled into violence and horror the poem mutates into a meditation on the inheritance of conflict, the destruction of innocence and the impossibility of afterwards saying what one has seen. Written with rigour, intelligence, and a fierce, unsparing clarity, this is profound, lyrical work with that rare confidence and thrilling originality that announce the arrival of a significant new voice.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Kenya
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-196
9 (RLIN) 392920
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Great Britain
General subdivision Colonies
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Epic poetry, English.
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Withdrawn     Not For Loan Karachi Karachi Poetry and Drama 22/06/2018   821.92 PKLC022980 22/06/2018 22/06/2018 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Book Bazaar
        Lahore Lahore Poetry and Drama 11/01/2019   821.92 PKLC022860 11/01/2019 11/01/2019 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17