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“Kambalu’s writing shines with
absurdist observational wit.”
Michael Sandlin, Time Out
“Read Kambalu, cry, clap your hands.”
Iain Finlayson, The Times
“A completely original, often subversive
book. With dazzling prose, wicked humour and not a little bit of
artistic licence, The Jive Talker opens the door to an Africa that
is rarely written about.” Borders.com
“I loved this brilliant Malawian coming
of age novel. It's funny, sad, shocking, pacey, bursting with energy
and talent.”
Barbara Trapido
One of Sunday Telegraph's Books
of The Year, 2008
“Samson Kambalu's The Jive Talker is
one of the funniest books I've read in years -- the book of a born
writer and a born comic. For every reader who's been bedazzled and
disappointed by the 'pity-me' school of autobiographical writing,
and every reader who's been jived to death, this book should be
a life preserver of sanity in an upside-down world, a reorientation
in how to avoid claptrap, self-pity and boorishness, and have a
high, smart time doing it.” -- Gary Indiana, author of Do
Everything in the Dark and The Schwarzenegger Syndrome
“Kambalu's nuanced characters bring
Malawi to life... For, as he shows in this riveting, brilliant book,
there is always more than one way of understanding the world.”
Susan Williams, Independent
“A beguiling journey under the warm,
sad, funny, chaotic, wacky and wise skin of one of the poorest countries
in Africa.” Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors
in Ukrainian.
“This is a book filled with wonder,
humour and hope. It is a magnificent achievement.” Aminatta
Forna, Telegraph
"A beguiling journey under the warm,
sad, funny, chaotic, wacky and wise skin of one of the poorest countries
in Africa" - Marina Lewycka (author of A Short History of Tractors
in Ukrainian), The Sunday Telegraph.
In
this ingenious often seditious book, Samson Kambalu takes no artistic
license, writing with witty and powerful prose. The Jive Talker
takes you into a period of African history that has rarely been
touched on before."
- TRAVEL AFRICA
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