Triangulum Av Masande Ntshanga

<p>From the award-winning writer of <i>The Reactive, Triangulum </i>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.<br><br>In 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. Thus begins <i>Triangulum</i>, a found manuscript composed of the mysterious woman''s memoir and her recordings. Haunted by visions of