To Sleep with Ghosts: A Novel of AfricaThe old Africa, before the Europeans changed it beyond recognition, was a place of beauty and sadness, power and humor, magic and allegory. The new Africa is a place of corruption and poverty, sickness and violence. The two conflicting worlds collide in this brilliant literary debut, as a professional seaman turned customs officer finds resolution in a return to the source of human strength: the power to tell a story. |
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