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    <body><![CDATA[A grim, but outstanding story on the evils of the slave trade, with a focus on the African coast.  Chatwin crafts a story that is as psychologically probing as Conrad's <em>Heart of Darkness</em> (Kurtz), and as bizarre as Marquez's <em>Autumn of the Patriarch</em> (a mad African king, a city of skulls and heads, wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29347423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the best novel I've read so far this year. I had never read anything by Chatwin before this and I picked it up with the assumption it was going to just be another novel in the 'English' style. How wrong I was! Chatwin writes like a more bloody and concise version of Marquez, with an incredi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26833854">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be revisiting this sometime, armed with a dictionary. I swear not a sentence went by that I didn't encounter a word I had never heard of, but which chatwin used with such aplomb and confidence that I knew pretty much exactly what he was on about, or, if I didn't, the sentence was STILL evocativ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15608613">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A short novella absolutely packed to the gills with imagery and characters. I recognize elements from Marquez (including a definite Hundred Years of Solitude allusion) and Conrad and fans of them will find much to love here, but there is distinctive flavor that must be Chatwin’s alone. There is to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29336548">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I selected this book because I wanted to break the totally Euro-centric mold of my reading.  Admittedly, Chatwin was European (British), but he writes about such exotic locales and topics.  In this case, Dahomey (now known as Benin), once at the heart of the slave trade.  This book is a fictional ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34313608">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[little did I know when I first read this that one day I would end up working in Ouidah. I didn't become a Viceroy though :-(]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intentionally very dark but with an unsatisfying end, a bit as if old Bruce had let its verve run dry. ]]></body>
    
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