To Dream Again

In this novel from Namibia reflecting postcolonial disillusionment, Kerem, a newspaper editor in the newly liberated country of his birth, is forced to reexamine his life-his rural youth, his coming to political consciousness, his path as an activist and revolutionary, his exile in London, and his eventual return. He does this as meticulously as his father used to examine his carvings through a magnifying glass. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, where Caliban refers to the dreamlike state before reality has dawned. Many of the elements found in postcolonial literature from Africa, and many typical players on the colonial and postcolonial stage reappear in this fine novel.