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The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
Paperback
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Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781953368669
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Apr 2 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
One of Washington Post's 50 most notable non-fiction books of 2024
National Books Critics Circle - 2024 Finalist: Autobiography
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza is an unforgettable travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all.
Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family's difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his own rage and regret. But as it is with all labyrinths, after finding its center, will he come away unscathed, or will he transform into the gripping, fantastical monstrousness that's out to consume him whole?
With nods to Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, this surrealist debut memoir takes us into the labyrinth of memory and the monsters lurking there.
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