The Lower River - Softcover

Theroux, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241145457 ISBN 13: 9780241145456

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 2012

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A dream of Eden in Africa lies in ruins...

Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa - to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his eden in Africa, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, taking the family home, and his daughter demands her share of his eventual will, he realises that there is one place for him to go: back to Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he will be happy again

Arriving at the dusty village he finds it transformed: 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 him - the foreigner with no fear of snakes - and welcome him back. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap?

Biografía del autor

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

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• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241145457
• ISBN 13: 9780241145456
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336