God Who Begat a Jackal A Novel

"[S]plendidly exotic, set in a world of magic and fetish....It is a world of gaudy, sometimes gratuitous detail....In the best of magic realist writing, wonder and the workings of a whole real community depend on each other and illuminate each other. Here, unfortunately, the exotic and magical start to seem like tinsel sprinkled on a long history, casting an arbitrary sparkle. Mezlekia does pause at times to spell out the fictional realities of this precolonial Africa....But he doesn't dramatize such things.Mezlekia, Nega is the author of 'God Who Begat a Jackal A Novel' with ISBN 9780312309961 and ISBN 0312309961.