On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world.
In these ten engrossing stories, Simon Nganga explores the meaning and consequences of choices that areusually considered national and society-wide from the eyes of individuals residing in local markets and villages.
Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying novelistic text that beautifully evokes the people and places of our lives--the spaces of work, those that may or may not be 'home', sites of trauma and ecstasy.
