The Raw Man
  • Published: 15 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407086040
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Raw Man

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15 May 2011
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A remarkable debut novel set in Southern Africa, where a man struggles to unravel his family's secrets and come to grips with his own ancestry, and his troubled past.

It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledgling nation of Zimbabwe, Sergeant Gordon's story has come to rest. He has borne it across drought-blasted floodplains and highlands, fleeing the copper mine which was his prison for many years. We learn his extraordinary story in reverse, from the military, to adolescent rebellion, a patchwork education and the brutal initiations of youth; back to childhood, birth and beyond. We travel the scarred landscapes of Southern Africa: a fractured region contending with its own history and a terrible present reality just as Gordon must do the same; uncovering the secrets of his own ancestry.

The Raw Man is a unique and powerful novel, a mixing of reality and myth and histories real and imagined. It is a story which has never before been told, a conjuring of an extraordinary place and time which reverberates beyond the pages. The Raw Man is a revelatory work of fiction, and one that is impossible to forget.
  • Published: 15 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407086040
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

George Makana Clark

George Makana Clark was raised in Rhodesia. He currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and daughter.

Praise for The Raw Man

The Raw Man is an extraordinary novel, and a work of rare conception, bringing together, within one individual, the painfully conflicted history of southern Africa

Brian Chikwava

A fantastically imaginative and enjoyable book

Think Africa Press

Clark’s novel is rich and strange… It is difficult not to admire its scope and verve, and not to be keen to know what its author does next

Times Literary Supplement

Clark's novel is compelling and beautiful, as it weaves together folklore and fantasy, history and myth into a complex tale of family, racial identification and storytelling

Jade Munslow Ong, Wasafiri

Once the reader has gone past the first chapter - no, first page - his chances of putting down the book are small

Helon Habila, Guardian

Strange, melancholic, and lyrical, The Raw Man is a novel that will live long in the memory

Stephen Joyce, Nudge

Unapologetically ambitious and suffused with a rare emotional intensity

BookTrust