Marabou Stork Nightmares

Author: Irvine Welsh

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 29 February 1996 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
197 x 130 x 19mm | 210g

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption.