Leone ross popisho6/24/2023 ![]() Ross similarly recounts the extravagantly bizarre – descriptions of “three buttocked” youngsters and “butchers who taught their goats to meditate” – in a breezily unfazed voice. ![]() When asked about the influences on his magical realism, Gabriel García Márquez cited his grandmother’s propensity for telling outlandish tales “with a brick face”. In the market, men walk about “criss-crossed with blood-splattered chickens” the hawkers’ urgent cries weave into intoxicating melodies. Lushly chromatic landscapes reminiscent of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road teem with tangled bougainvillea, “polymorphic butterflies” and trees whose blue fruit is covered with lines of poetry. Ross undertakes the task of world-building this trippy realm with tremendous gusto, wit and style. While the despotic Governor Intiasar ostensibly presides over the state, it is the Fatidique, an esoteric council of female visionaries, who really hold the reins of power. Some have prehensile tails that fluff up in response to injustice. The citizens of Popisho are just as remarkable: each possesses a special power, or “cors”. ![]() ![]() Houses morph, stretch, bend over backwards to accommodate their inhabitants’ whims. ![]() Here, clouds rain down torrents of physalises. A lthough the fictional archipelago of Popisho in Leone Ross’s third novel is imbued with a Caribbean sensibility, it is an entirely original place. ![]()
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