{"product_id":"judith-namala-a-novella","title":"Judith Namala: A Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJudith Namala: A Novella\u003c\/em\u003e, Serubiri Moses’s fiction debut, is an experiment in adaptation, storytelling, and translation as fictocriticism. Set in Uganda between the late 1970s and early 2000s, the book follows the domestic dramas of Judith Namala, a Black maid, and Esther Nambi, her Black madam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfolding across short vignettes, Moses’s innovative prose attends to the silences and opacities that mark the distances—and forced proximities—between two characters whose tense relationship is defined by class and social hierarchy. Hovering at the surface of these quiet scenes of servitude, the narrator offers an enigmatic model of interiority—grasped only in passing, where psychic geographies confront and sometimes, surprisingly, mirror one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on cultural artifacts, art, film, and his own translation of lyrics from a Luganda popular music songbook, Moses spins a story of housework and labor that reaches across forty years of Ugandan history. Written in a unique style informed by oral tradition, folklore, criticism, and reportage, \u003cem\u003eJudith Namala: A Novella\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate, domestic portrait that embraces the poetics of metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CARA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358350025044,"sku":"A8B-37462","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Judith_20Namala.jpg?v=1790814874","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/judith-namala-a-novella","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}