{"id":183,"date":"2016-12-19T00:59:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenightoftherambler.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2016-12-19T01:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:04:21","slug":"the-night-of-the-rambler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/books\/the-night-of-the-rambler\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NIGHT OF THE RAMBLER"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 9, 1967, sixteen men from Anguilla, a forgotten island in the Caribbean, set sail aboard a thirty-five-foot sloop, the\u00a0Rambler<\/em>, to make the night-time journey to St. Kitts, where they intended to carry out a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and install a new government sympathetic to their separatist cause. Set against the turbulent background of world politics in the sixties,\u00a0The Night of the Rambler<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of a misinformed and misconceived plan, carried out incompetently by a group of scarcely trained and ill-equipped amateurs who escape calamity by mere coincidence. And yet, somehow, the main purpose of their mission, the furtherance of Anguilla\u2019s struggle to dissociate itself from the newly formed state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla and to return to the British colonial fold, is significantly strengthened by this, quite possibly the most outrageous episode in the history of revolutions.<\/p>\n

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Loosely based on the historical facts surrounding the Anguilla Revolution of 1967,\u00a0The Night of the Rambler\u00a0<\/em>unfolds across the fifteen hours that lapse between the moment when the \u201crebels\u201d board the motorboat that will take them across the strait to St. Kitts, and the break of dawn the following day, when it becomes obvious that the unaccomplished mission will have to be aborted. The novel consciously moves away from the \u201chistorical\u201d category, purposely altering at will the sequence of \u201cfacts\u201d narrated, collating fully fictional episodes with vaguely accurate anecdotes and replacing the protagonists with fictional characters. At turns highly dramatic and hilarious, Kobb\u00e9 brings deep honesty to the often-unexamined righteousness of revolution.<\/p>\n

With echoes of Salman Rushdie\u2019s\u00a0Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>, Junot D\u00edaz\u2019s\u00a0The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>, and Mario Vargas Llosa\u2019s\u00a0Conversation in the Cathedral<\/em>,\u00a0The Night of the Rambler\u00a0<\/em>touches upon the universal topics of freedom and self-determination with humor and sensibility, creating an alternative reality that is informed by real life but ultimately governed by the uncanny.<\/p>\n

Find out about the inspiration behind The Night of the Rambler in the series of four pieces published in Akashic’s website about:<\/p>\n

Rambling in Anguilla
\n<\/a>Earl Lovelace and The Night of the Rambler
\n<\/em><\/a>Living in Anguilla<\/a>
\nWriting the Rambler<\/a><\/p>\n

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Want more? Here are some BONUS<\/a> tracks, short EXCERPTS<\/a>\u00a0and AUDIO<\/a> material of the novel.<\/p>\n

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