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The Endless Battle
by Andrew Nyongesa   
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Category:  Literary Fiction
Publisher: Royallite Publishers

ISBN-10:  154479357X

Pages: 160

Copyright: 
20-2
ISBN-13: 9781616675035


A story that depicts the struggles of Eugene to adjust in an alien culture. The psychological trauma that results from segregation in Somalia threatens his marriage. The novel emphasizes that life is an endless battle and one's attitude determines whether he succeeds or fails.

The Endless Battle has four parts: Marriage and the slide, which introduces Eugene's lease of life after wedding Fresher. The marriage starts with a bang and the couple exults in their companionship. With the lapse of time, Fresher discovers that Eugene is obsessed with writing and publishing. Her attempts to urge him to diversify his investment hits the wall. Madam Victorine, Fresher's cousin and sworn enemy returns to Kenya and launhes a number of schemes to bring down Eugene and Fresher. Using a characer defamation legal suits, Eugene diposes his house and business to save himself from prison. The couple is reduced to poverty and Eugene leaves for Mandera to search for a job. in this part, Kenya outside Kenya, the fate of immigrant minorities is depicted. Eugene faces a lot of discrimination from the local Somali tribe. He is interdicted and leaves for Somalia, Mogadishu. Here, he is shocked byb the religious dogma and discrimnation: teacher shot by students, segregation at the social level and the contant violence. Some immigrants employ hybridity and others, fixity to fight dicrimination in Somalia. Eugene is so internally fragmented that he suffers intimacy issues. The animosity drives him out of Somalia back to Mandera where he is alomost killed by Alshabaab militia on bus. His mastery of the shahada saves him from the muzzle of the gun. The Endless Battle is a captivating novel based on postcolonial theory.


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