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'A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay. Cartwright tellingly contrasts the supposed savagery of the dark continent with the very real barbarism of Nazi Germany and the modern world' Esquire 'Ambitious ... the book works well, as a story, as a compendium of reflections on race and nationhood and as a novel with a refined and distinctive narrative voice and one marvellously complete character, the old White Kenyan, Tom Fairfax ... an elegantly complex, unfailingly intelligent novel' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Spectator No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As the novel progresses it becomes clear that it isn’t all about the Masai: a good proportion of it is about the Holocaust, and specifically the deportation of Jews from France. An unusual combination of themes and settings but one of the most graphic and hard hitting portrayals of the Holocaust I have encountered in literature.
And then there are the sparkling bits of dry wit. I loved the author’s description of the colobus monkey as looking “like a conventional monkey dressed up as the chancellor of a university”. This is the second of his books that have sent me scuttling off to Google Images in connection with some reference to natural history, and once again his description is spot on. ( )