Paul Theroux

Lower River (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he cant help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.Entertainment Weekly When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness hed been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember Ellis and welcome him with open arms. Soon, however, their overtures turn menacing; they demand money and refuse to let him leave the village. Is his new life an escape or a trap? Therouxs bravely unsentimental novel about a region where he began his own grand career should become part of anybodys education in the continent.Washington Post The Lower River is riveting in its storytelling and provocative in its depiction of this African backwater, infusing both with undertones of slavery and cannibalism, savagery and disease.New York Times Book Review

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547746913
• Artikelnr.: 40176412

Autorenporträt

PAUL THEROUX's highly acclaimed novels include Hotel Honolulu and The Mosquito Coast. His travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari,Riding the Iron Rooster,The Great Railway Bazaar, and The Happy Isles of Oceania.