An edition of Night Journey (Fiction / Poetry) (2013)

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An edition of Night Journey (Fiction / Poetry) (2013)

Night Journey (Fiction / Poetry)

Set in South Africa during the 60's and 70's, Night Journey is a novel about a young soldier who deserts the army and, when he is recaptured by the military, refuses to return to military service on religious grounds. For his insubordination he is placed in an extreme regime of solitary confinement for a long period, wherein he experiences the eponymous "night journey" of dreams, visions and memories, which lead him to find himself. The story of the young soldier's life emerges, as a stream of consciousness, in the present tense, and gradually the narrator's back-story and his psychological state are filled-in through a mixture of dreams, recollections, and flashbacks, intercut with scenes from the ongoing present. It is an erratic and chaotic life with a hopeless father and the wild and wayward mother who often live on the shady side of the law; all this is set against a brooding and violent background of South Africa at war with its neighbours and itself.

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Karnac Books
Pages
249

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Night Journey (Fiction / Poetry)
2013-01-10, Karnac Books

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Library of Congress
UB342.S6M34 2013

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL47858744M
Internet Archive
nightjourney0000mack
ISBN 10
1780490860
ISBN 13
9781780490861
OCLC/WorldCat
811602098

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