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The catastrophist

Ronan Bennett · 1998

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A romance between two journalists in 1960s Africa disintegrates over politics. She is an Italian who supports the Congolese war of independence against Belgium, he is an Irishman who sides with the whites. She takes a black lover, he a white one. A study in decolonization by an Irish writer.

First sentence: The pitted sponge of jungle gives way to scrub and sand.

Book details

Year
1998
Language
English
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Editions
9
Pages
336
ISBN
9780684870366

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