The Explosion of the Radiator Hose

by Jean Rolin

In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s--but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564786323
• ISBN13: 9781564786326
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher