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Mameluke Bath

di Andrew Asibong

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Mameluke Bath is the bizarre story of Christie Smithkin, a 39-year-old misfit, misanthrope and virgin, who lives in the nightmarish English city of St Pauly.

Friendless, paranoid, and lacking the funds she needs for the completion of her PhD thesis, mixed-race Christie's only hope lies in a new 'asylum-seeker mentoring' scheme for which she has recently volunteered as a mentor. Offering guidance to recently-arrived African refugees fleeing torture will, she prays, provide her with a sense of social purpose and perhaps even emotional connection.

Christie's plan goes awry when she discovers that Mukelenge, her Congolese mentee, has already been assigned a mentor: Damon, a cheerful, vapid, white male nurse. Worse still, Mukelenge is settling into urban East Midlands society with unnerving confidence and poise. Piqued by the immigrant's miraculous feats of integration, Christie becomes uncontrollably jealous when she realises that Mukelenge is also casting a spell of seduction over the handsome, doll-like Damon.

Christie's determination to solve the mystery of Mukelenge's identity, to rescue Damon from the real or imagined horrors of a zombie-factory deep in the woods, and to come to terms with her own terrifying childhood, will hurtle all three protagonists towards a macabre conclusion in the nearby spa town of Mameluke Bath.

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An essential read for dwellers in dystopia and lovers of zombies, truth, lyricism and the Western pop canon (so that's most of us...) Mameluke Bath is deeply frightening and deeply human. Christie's over-articulate fury and bristling vulnerability make her a travelling companion whom this reader missed once her train finally pulled into its mysterious destination, and who remains in the mind long afterwards. ( )
  hannaheaton | Jul 11, 2015 |
A brilliantly inventive book, and one that is simultaneously riotously funny and deeply serious - a perfect combination. Recommended for anyone who likes to be both entertained and to be forced to use their brain when reading. ( )
  baboon2525 | Jul 10, 2015 |
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While I can appreciate the author's writing, unfortunately I did not enjoy this book. It's taken me two years to read it - I tried repeatedly but couldn't get through the first chapter. I eventually made myself read it, but I found the book confusing and not engaging. I found I couldn't follow any sort of a plot and I didn't sympathise with the characters. ( )
  bellymonster | Jul 5, 2015 |
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This book is impossible to describe. Asibong throws so many elements into this novella, that it is tough to read in spots, but his willingness to experiment keeps this form being a 1 star read. It especially took awhile to get used to the second person chapters. Plus, some of the ideas seemed too British for me to fully comprehend. ( )
  bookwyrmm | Jan 6, 2015 |
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I received a review copy of this book quite some time ago. I have tried to read it several times and have just not been able to get into it. I'm not sure if it's the genre or something else. I don't want to leave a totally negative/unhelpful review, so I will point out that the author has a creative imagination and does a great job sharing it. The attempts I did make allowed me to see a great deal of imagery. ( )
  jurai2 | Sep 12, 2014 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:

Mameluke Bath is the bizarre story of Christie Smithkin, a 39-year-old misfit, misanthrope and virgin, who lives in the nightmarish English city of St Pauly.

Friendless, paranoid, and lacking the funds she needs for the completion of her PhD thesis, mixed-race Christie's only hope lies in a new 'asylum-seeker mentoring' scheme for which she has recently volunteered as a mentor. Offering guidance to recently-arrived African refugees fleeing torture will, she prays, provide her with a sense of social purpose and perhaps even emotional connection.

Christie's plan goes awry when she discovers that Mukelenge, her Congolese mentee, has already been assigned a mentor: Damon, a cheerful, vapid, white male nurse. Worse still, Mukelenge is settling into urban East Midlands society with unnerving confidence and poise. Piqued by the immigrant's miraculous feats of integration, Christie becomes uncontrollably jealous when she realises that Mukelenge is also casting a spell of seduction over the handsome, doll-like Damon.

Christie's determination to solve the mystery of Mukelenge's identity, to rescue Damon from the real or imagined horrors of a zombie-factory deep in the woods, and to come to terms with her own terrifying childhood, will hurtle all three protagonists towards a macabre conclusion in the nearby spa town of Mameluke Bath.

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