Themba Lewis
Revolution Daze (New Edition)
$ 10.00

While on tour with a Sudanese-Egyptian band in 2011, Themba Lewis found himself in the middle of a revolution. Revolution Daze is a document of that time through the lives of those around him.

From the publisher: "This book began the day Mubarak shut down all communication in Egypt as the revolution that would ultimately depose him began. Lewis was in the Sinai, playing bass for a Sudanese-Egyptian band. These are diary excerpts of that incendiary time: a van hurtling through the mountains above the Red Sea at 3am, a fruit salad that turns out to be two pieces of canned pineapple, a hotel manager pleading for one more night, a ferry to Jordan booked with ten minutes' notice, and a return to Tahrir five months later, where the tent city has its own factions and its own barbershop and its own exhaustion setting in under the July heat."

68 pages, half-letter size, letterpressed covers, comes with a handsome bookmark. Published by Black River (Esrum, Denmark), letterpress-printed in short runs and released without an ISBN as a deliberate political choice.

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