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Boyd Tonkin recommends Manituana in his weekly columnThe Independent, May 15th, 2009“For page-riffling ingenuity attached to historical heft and narrative muscle, no recent conspiracy epic comes close to the Reformation romp Q by “Luther Blissett”. In this case, the book’s back-story surpasses in improbability anything that takes place on the page. Named in tribute to a former Watford striker who suffered racist abuse while playing at AC Milan, “Luther Blissett” was the sobriquet of a quartet of anarchist cultural pranksters from Bologna. For some still-mysterious reason, they turned to subversive historical fiction – and succeeded mightily. Changing their name to “Wu Ming”, the group followed Q with 54, which wittily permed its knotty Cold War plot with both Cary Grant and Marshal Tito. In July, “Wu Ming” will release another show of period pyrotechnics in Britain: Manituana, which promises an Indian-centred alternative history of the American Revolution. Why wait for an emetic binge with Brown with such tasty and robust helpings of Bolognese sauce already on the table?” READ MORE… 16.05.09 · on recensioni
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