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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24339 Thompson, Alice. Killing Time. 1990.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24558 Paretsky, Sara. Hard Time. 1999.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24875 Habila, Helon. Measuring Time. 2004.

Measuring Time is Helon Habila’s most complete novel. Beautifully crafted and complex, the novel is set in rural Keti, Northern Nigeria and tells the story of twin brothers Mamo and Lamamo, who grow up together in the village, but whose lives eventually follow very different trajectories. Mamo, the first born, the thoughtful, the “silent observer”, who inherited his mother’s sickle cell anemia (an illness that puts him in a precarious relation with time), becomes a history teacher at Keti community school and also a local historian. Lamamo, the healthier, stronger, and more adventurous one, leaves his hometown to become a soldier, a rebel, a fighter in the service of different liberation armies across the African continent. The letters he sends home speak of his political idealism, as well as a gradual loss of belief in the sense of wars in the context of the dehumanizing violence and brutality he experiences. Measuring Time is driven by an epistemologic

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25307 Kelman, James. The Good Times. 1998.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25519 Lead, Jane. The Signs of the Times. 1699.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26316 Mphahlele, Es'kia. Renewal Time. 1988.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26966 Humphrey, William. A Time and a Place. 1968.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=27798 Bullins, Ed. In The Wine Time. 1971.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31606 Stevenson, Anne. Winter Time. 1986.

Winter Time is a slim booklet of twenty-four pages containing twelve new poems by Stevenson written during the year since her previous publication, The Fiction-Makers , 1985. The twelve poems are mostly meditations, or descriptions, arising out of images of winter, defined as the time between putting the clocks back at the end of October and forward in March. The poems are full of a detailed awareness of the brilliance, colour and variety of nature, particularly wildflowers, in winter: such as the “fireweed” in “Observations; the “bright haws” and “bare snowberries” in “Slow Train to Carlisle”; and the “goatsbeard”, “rose bay willow herb” and “red campion” in “Naming the Flowers”. The opening poem, “Calendar”, is a meditation on the calendar, giving rise to the poet’s comments on the changes of perception brought about by the passage of time. The future has a “solid, permanent appearance – mountains of sandstone and sun

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31942 Gass, William. Tests of Time. 2002.