Luke Williams
The Echo Chamber
About the Author
The Echo Chamber
PART ONE
1. First Questions
2. Pocket Watch or My Father Meets a Stranger on a Train
3. How My Parents Met
4. Map of the World, 1: The Tale of El-Edrisi
5. My Parents Marry — War Breaks Out — I Am Conceived
6. I Gestate, Listen, and — Finally — I Am Born
7. Transcribing My Mother’s Diary
PART TWO
8. Mother’s Silence
9. Unnamed
10. Taiwo Meets Her End
11. In Lagos
12. Babatundi the Idiot Boy or How I Acquired My Name
13. Map of the World, 2: Massacre at Benin
14. ‘First Snow in Port Suez’
15. The Snow Queen
16. How I Developed My Powers of Listening
17. How I Abandoned Ade
18. The Pit
19. Nikolas, Leader of the Nightsoil Workers
20. How I Found My Way Home
21. Exile
PART THREE
22. The Hothouse
23. Father’s Madness and Death
24. Jesus the Jew or How My Father Acquired His Name
25. Transcribing Damaris’ Diary: Britain
26. Transcribing Damaris’ Diary: America
27. Tinnitus
28. Map of the World, 3: Ade’s Story
29. Last Visit to Mr Rafferty
30. Auto da Fé
Postscript
Acknowledgements
