num_pages: 204
description: A brilliant tour de force The Knight and His Shadow tells the tale of Lat-Sukabs quest to find his former lover Khadidja who writes him to come before its too late. As Lat-Sukab recounts his past with Khadidja reality shapeshifts and takes on a dreamlike quality. He describes how Khadidja is hired by a wealthy stranger to sit before an open door and tell stories into an uncertain darkness unable to see the person to whom she speaks. Like Lat-Sukab and Khadidja the reader feels farther from home with every page as the world turns and morphs. With those shifts the symbolic order the basis of meaning and sanity begins to tremble. Postmodernist sensibilities meet postcolonial concerns in this lyrical novel from a master of Senegalese literature.
language: English
title: The Knight and His Shadow
publisher: Michigan State University Press