A hauntingly effective surrealist travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all (Library Journal, starred review).
Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his familys difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his own rage and regret. But as it is with all labyrinths, after finding its center, will he come away unscathed, or will he transform into the gripping, fantastical monstrousness thats out to consume him whole?
With nods to Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, this surrealist debut memoir takes us into the labyrinth of memory and the monsters lurking there.
Zito Maduwas born in Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1998. He grew up in Detroit and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has been published in many publications, includingPlough Quarterly,Victory Journal,GQ Magazine, theNew Republic, and theNation.
*Difficult to categorize but hauntingly effective. It has no fail-safe audience but will reward whoever picks it up.?David Keymer,?Library Journal?(STARRED REVIEW)
From a small village in Nigeria, to the bustling streets of Venice, via the city of Detroit,?Zito?Madus?The Minotaur at Calle Lanza?is an engaging, even surreal, autobiographical account of travel and the spectacle and fear of the Other.?A brilliant debut. Ben Carrington?
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza?is stunningly paradoxical. The deeper you wander into the so-called monsters labyrinth, the clearer and more affecting his entrapment becomes. With this debut, Madu masterfully entanlcā
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