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Time and Splace
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ISBN13: 9798878813686
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2024
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2024
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Operating on a (more than) ten thousand year timescale, Time and Splace, by Omar Francis, operates as both fictionalised history and historicised myth. The work seeks to playfully yet acutely address the deeply human questions of how we've got to where we are, and what we can do about it.
Time and Splace follows three main sets of characters, all loosely based on deities and heroes from around the world. Starting in differing and far-flung locations and times, these characters, nevertheless, are inexorably drawn together by that most exacting of taskmasters: necessity. Their movement and responses forms the backbone of the story.
Time and Splace follows three main sets of characters, all loosely based on deities and heroes from around the world. Starting in differing and far-flung locations and times, these characters, nevertheless, are inexorably drawn together by that most exacting of taskmasters: necessity. Their movement and responses forms the backbone of the story.
The world(s) depicted in the novel are rooted in Buddhist cosmology, but Time and Splace is infused with ways of knowing from all over the world, reflecting the author's new world (and thus cosmopolitan) upbringing. In fact, Francis's home country of Jamaica, and its neighbours Cuba and Hispaniola can fairly be counted as characters that we meet in the story's unfolding.
There are few definitive answers offered by the book, but there are plenty of questions, and maybe some useful ideas as well.
There are few definitive answers offered by the book, but there are plenty of questions, and maybe some useful ideas as well.
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