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    Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?

    By Simon Okotie

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    Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s Transport Advisor, has gone missing. Down-at-heel detective Marguerite is trying to find him. Aware that his every action is being monitored by those reading the novel, Marguerite’s mind and world is at constant risk of disintegration. Disturbed by attempts to understand himself and the nature of the objects he encounters, Marguerite’s minute and comically digressive inquiries threaten his very existence.

    As he follows and then is followed by Harold’s wife Isobel around the city, Marguerite discovers startling evidence of her involvement in the disappearance and becomes increasingly compromised by his feelings for her. Finding himself cornered by Isobel on a speeding bus, it emerges that Marguerite may be more closely implicated than we think. The resolution of the case brings a discovery that will shatter his world and well-being forever.

    Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon? is a unique take on the world of category, cliché and identity and heralds the emergence of a truly original new voice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSalt
    Release dateDec 11, 2013
    ISBN9781844719792
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    Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?
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    Simon Okotie

    Simon Okotie was born to Nigerian/English parents. His autobiographical first novel about growing up in rural Norfolk was a runner-up for the 1998 Saga Prize for black British fiction. He has a First Class engineering degree and Master's degrees in Philosophy and Transport Planning. He lives in London.

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      Marguerite (a man) is hot on the trail of Harold Absalon, disappeared transport adviser. Except he's not really hot on the trail, but he has managed to track down Absalon's wife and follow her for a bit. In the space of 100 pages he follows her into a hotel, gets kicked out of said hotel, waits across the street from the hotel, follows her up the road a bit and gets onto a bus. Okotie takes digression to another level, through comic to frustrating. And the pace of physical movement vs. mental loquacity only decreases as the book moves on - the man talks to himself in his head FAR TOO MUCH.