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Title Statement | Because of nothing at all / Paul Sunga. |
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Author | Sunga, Paul S., 1956- |
Publication | ℗♭2022Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions,[2022] |
Extent of Item | 399 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781773102467 (pbk.) 177310246X (pbk.) |
Other Number | 4482394 |
Summary | A novel about aid workers, abductions, ransoms, and the divide between the Global North and Global South. Near the Kenya-Sudan border, a team of international health program evaluators are abducted and force marched under a desert moon. Their pasts and presents -- and those of their abductors -- unravels before them. An orphan named Money is one of 66 too hungry to sleep. A rich public health doctor is gradually losing his points of attachment. A driver tastes the river of wealth through the vehicles he's provided. Some escape; others are recaptured; a few are held at ransom. All are lured into schemes that often lead to unexpected results. Because of Nothing at All is a story of choices, identity, and wealth, its richly drawn characters pitched into isolated and desperate circumstances. Born from the underbelly of the modern era of internationalism, Sunga's vividly compelling novel depicts the inequities of a world gone awry, where the lines between madness and sanity, between justice and injustice, are blurred, if not erased. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Abduction--Fiction |
Kidnapping--Fiction | |
Justice--Fiction | |
Victims of crimes--Fiction | |
Escapes--Fiction | |
Captivity--Fiction |