Kafka"s Curse

The author "Curse Kafka" was born in Johannesburg in 1948.
His creativity is just as unknown in Russia, as it is not known that for several decades has been going on in the depths of the multinational country of the victorious apartheid.
Peru Dangora belongs to three poetic compilation, a story, a collection of stories and two novels (the last of them is "bitter fruit" - written in 2001) Ahmat Dungor - Winner of many literary awards, including the Charles Prize Herman Bosman, awarded to him in 1998 for the Book of Curse of Kafka.
In the heart of the novel lives the Arabic myth of Leyla and Medeznun, a gardener who dared to love the princess, a khalifa daughter. The keenness of the one who dared to leave his shores is punished. It is waiting for fantastic metamorphosis - turning into a tree.
"Curse of Kafka" is a book about metamorphosis. Metamorphosis of the body and consciousness. In the novel, the words "Curse of Kafka" are found only once. On the jargon of psychologists, this is the deep psychological attitude of the monstrous and mysterious bodily illness - completely incrembating the physical nature of a person who turns it into unprecedented previously the creation. Direct parallel with "transforming" Franz Kafka ...
The external basis of the story of the novel is a miniature "Saga about Hanachi" - the history of several generations of Gujarat Muslims, settled in South Africa, according to the laws of which they were considered "black". For several generations in the family of Khanov, in the veins of which mixed blood flows, terrible tragedies occur when someone tries to break away from their roots, to leave their life niche