Our Time is Gone is the third book in the five novel Furys sequence. All five novels have been reissued in Faber Finds. Complete in itself and published in 1940, it is set during the First World War. 'It is refreshing to turn to the really great novel called Our Time is Gone.
A revelatory history of humanity - spanning thousands of years and ranging across the world - told through the lens of a misunderstood disease. 'Remarkable .
A novel about writing and talking, self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . The disputed issues still resonate - concerning identity, cultural habits, class distinctions and the right to be heard.
Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature. 'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer 'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe