{"product_id":"triangulum-isbn-9781937512774","title":"Triangulum","description":"\u003ci\u003eTriangulum\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa’s recent past and near future — starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s, and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the 2040s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in ten years. Assigned to the case, Dr. Naomi Buthelezi, a retired professor and science-fiction writer, is hired to investigate the veracity of the materials, and whether or not the woman's claim to have heard from a “force more powerful than humankind” is genuine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus begins TRIANGULUM, a found manuscript composed of the mysterious woman’s memoir and her recordings. Haunted by visions of a mysterious machine, the narrator is a seemingly adrift 17-year-old girl, whose sick father never recovered from the shock of losing his wife. She struggles to navigate school, sexual experimentation, and friendship across racial barriers in post-Apartheid South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen three girls go missing from their town, on her mother's birthday, the narrator is convinced that it has something to do with \"the machine\" and how her mother also went missing in the '90s. Along with her friends, Litha and Part, she discovers a puzzling book on UFOs at the library, the references and similarities in which lead the friends to believe that the text holds clues to the narrators’s mother's abduction. Drawing upon suggestions in the text, she and her friends set out on an epic journey that takes them from their small town to an underground lab, a criminal network, and finally, a mysterious, dense forest, in search of clues as to what happened to the narrator's mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith extraordinary aplomb and breathtaking prose, Ntshanga has crafted an inventive and marvelous artistic accomplishment.\"The violent and fascinating history of South Africa—from colonialism to apartheid, and the recent struggles to come to terms with this past—serves as a rich backdrop for this unsettling, enrapturing novel that brings to mind Roberto Bolano’s 2666... a novel of incredible imagination that gradually unfurls into a wonderfully realized meditation on growing up, heritage, and the effects of technological progress on the world around us.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexander Moran, Booklist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificently disorienting and meticulously constructed, Triangulum couples an urgent subtext with an unceasing sense of mystery. This is a thought-provoking dream of a novel, situated within thought-provoking contexts both fictional and historical.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tobias Carroll, Tor.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Masande Ntshanga’s poetic language haunts... Ntshanga has crafted a novel that triangulates South Africa’s past, present, and future, using each to better surmise the nature of the others.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rachel Z. Arndt, The Believer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come for the unexpected convergence of Afro-futurism, eco-terrorism, alien abductions, and more. Stay for the unsettling meditations on South Africa’s dystopian past and present, the grandiose yet subversive re-imagining of humanity’s relationship to nature, and the poignant impulse, from which no character is spared, to make aliens of each other and of themselves.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mekiya Walters, The Arkansas International\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this modern coming-of-age tale, Masande Nsthanga... takes us on dystopic journey into the most suprising places, and also on a journey into the human soul haunted by the past, revolted by injustice and hungry for freedom.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ioana Danaila, The African Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spanning roughly fifty years from South Africa’s recent past to its near future, Masande Ntshanga’s sophomore novel, Triangulum, employs an altogether more thoughtful melding of historical and sci-fi colonial narratives. Following the life of an anonymous narrator, we inhabit not a country that has enjoyed a conclusive, triumphant end of apartheid, but rather one still plagued by alien rule which mutates, subtly and insidiously, beyond recognition.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matt Loreti, Cleveland Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This quirky, futuristic novel skirts the boundary of science fiction... Ntshanga writes convincingly from the viewpoint of his narrator as she advances into adulthood. Her struggles to make sense of the strangeness and unpredictability of her world and experiences make this a stirring coming-of-age story.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasande Ntshanga\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed novels \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reactive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, shortlisted for the 2015 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature, and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTriangulum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the 2020 Nomo Awards for Best Novel. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Award (2018), winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChimurenga\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e VICE\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003en + 1\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written for \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233798926565,"sku":"NP9781937512774","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781937512774.jpg?v=1767742950","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/triangulum-isbn-9781937512774","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}