Bøger af Andrew Nyongesa

The Pearl on the Horizon is a moving story about the devastating effects of materialism which sends a rich ethical message in line with religious teachings. Madame Victorine Mahfouz grows up in a materialistic family and looks at everything through these lenses. On the other hand, Eugene and Fresha believe in high achievements in education and subsequent roses. Confronted with unemployment and tough socio-economic demands, Madame Victorine mocks the two and even threatens to destroy their engagement. Underlying the plot is a classic romantic love relationship between Eugene and Fresha, on the one hand, and Madame Victorine's illicit amorous scandals, on the other. In these well-written passages with techniques enriched by letters, songs, poems and narration, the reader will appreciate the author's juxtaposition of success and survival. The Pearl on the Horizon draws a line between survival and success, crowns the latter prominence and discredits the former. The writer suggests that success is slow but bears enduring results. Survival, on the other hand, is quick but can lead to ruin.

Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction, Andrew Nyongesa investigates the role of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels.

This book extends Fanon's thesis with regard to madness in selected works of African fiction, in this book, the authors incorporate the fragmented self, which is equally disabling.

"Their journey in Milenia had been long and heart-breaking... But how tattered the state of the human heart was. Hey; those appearances. Absurd: White blackness, health sickness, heaven hell... They brayed about a bright future at death point, they wedded on deathbeds¿," says the narrator towards the end of The Blissabyss. In The Blissabyss, Andrew Nyongesa attests to the tenet of Sigmund Freud¿s psychoanalysis that primordial instincts of sex and destruction dominate human nature. It is therefore fallacious for the hero, Eugene Simiyu, to imagine that he is above these base natures. Even in the best of his times, Eugene exhibits sex instincts in thought; perhaps it is only the Creator with the power to be perfect. The novelist warns the audience to beware as they mock others as the young Eugene does. Life has countless enemies of propriety and virtue; and the first is the evil nature within us then that without. Eugene confronts lust from within and jealousy from without. Eugene has the attributes of a tragic hero; he is gifted but his pride leads to his downfall. He learns that he is no better than Nancie and Wambaka; he is an absurd combination: heavenhell and goodbad.

The Water Cycle is tremendously scenic and realistic in depiction of the plight of the African child in the midst of clash of Western and African cultures. This novel presents a captivating rendition of a clash of cultures and is a well-woven, heart rending tragedy of a man at the crossroads of two cultures.