Cannibal

by Terese Svoboda

"A harrowing first novel...Svoboda's heroine is a white ethnographer slowly being starved to death by her lover as they trek across the Sudan. An obsessive monologue told in a measured whisper, desperate, chilling, seductive." -Vogue "I am still hungover from reading this book . . . Most writers cannot sustain their premises but Svoboda does and even strengthens hers . . . I am very excited about this book being put into the world." -Mark Richard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814780121
• ISBN13: 9780814780121
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

One woman's journey through Africa.

Terese Svoboda's Cannibal can best be described as haunting.Its terse prose is well written. Cannibal tells the story of awoman's trek through Africa; following the man she loves. As their journey unravels she begins to suspect that he is not what he appears to be, and in fact he may be starving her. The story is told from inside the woman's head. It is all reflective dialogue; in this case it works, and keeps the reader's attention. If you are interested in Africa, and like dark psychological discourse in literature; then this book is for you.