The Explosion of the Radiator Hose
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In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s-but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's sensual and digressive attack upon history: his own as well as the world's. By turns comic, lyrical, gruesome, and humane, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose is a one-of-a-kind travelogue, and no less an exploration of what it means to be human in a life of perpetual exile and migration.
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Rolin, J. (2011). The Explosion of the Radiator Hose. Deep Vellum Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rolin, Jean. 2011. The Explosion of the Radiator Hose. Deep Vellum Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rolin, Jean, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose. Deep Vellum Publishing, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rolin, Jean. The Explosion of the Radiator Hose. Deep Vellum Publishing, 2011.
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