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Dr. No / Percival Everett.

The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means 'nothing' in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for 'nothing'. He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.

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ISBN 9781922790323 (paperback)
Author Everett, Percival author.
Title Dr. No / Percival Everett.
Published Wurundjeri Country ; Text Publishing, 2023.
Melbourne, Victoria :
Physical description 262 pages ; 24 cm
General note Originally published: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2022.
Summary The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means 'nothing' in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for 'nothing'. He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.
Subject College teachers -- Fiction
Mathematics teachers -- Fiction
Mathematicians -- Fiction
Theft -- Fiction
Good and evil -- Fiction
Nothing (Philosophy) -- Fiction
Villains -- Fiction
Humorous fiction
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