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Read more last night--depressing--everything I thought would happen apparently has. Downhill since the day the Union flag was lowered. Corruption and stupidity.
Stuggling to finish this one. I probably will, but it just isn't holding my interest very well at this point.
So far, this does NOT make me want to go back to Malawi. A Malawi with whole new forms of corruption.....but hearing place names does bring to mind so many people--all of whom are likely dead. That part is very sad.
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Stuggling to finish this one. I probably will, but it just isn't holding my interest very well at this point.
So far, this does NOT make me want to go back to Malawi. A Malawi with whole new forms of corruption.....but hearing place names does bring to mind so many people--all of whom are likely dead. That part is very sad.
Paul Theroux and ...more
This is an engrossing read, a sort of "what if" kind of speculation. The protagonist finds himself in late middle age with a failing business and a failed marriage. Rudderless, he decides to return to the one place he remembers being truly happy, the rural village in Malawi where he taught school in the 60s. What he finds seems at first comforting and then gradually reveals a sinister side. The pace picks up and the writing is descriptive but spare, with beautiful use of metaphor and allusion. S
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Interesting read, not what I thought it would be. Puts forth a very good argument against any monetary or food aid to Africans....
I have wanted to read this book for a while but am disappointed in it. It was not at all what I expected, and in fact, I found it extremely depressing on many levels. (view spoiler)
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Jun 22, 2012
Erin
marked it as to-read
Jul 10, 2012
Greer
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Sep 25, 2019
Theresa Wright
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