On the Edge of the Great Rift: Three Novels of AfricaFong and the Indians: A Chinese immigrant in a ramshackle East African country, Sam Fong is reduced to scraping a living as a grocer. Outnumbered by Africans and outfoxed by Indians, Fong is nevertheless a survivor, and survival in East Africa depends on one thing: making friends with the enemy ... Girls at Play: Miss Poole runs an isolated school for African girls in the Kenyan bush. Her unmarried, white, female teachers' common fear of Africa bonds them, but fear alone is no match for bitchery within the ranks ... Jungle Lovers: Life is not easy in Malawi for the dedicated insurance salesman, nor for the revolutionary terrorist. So from the moment when Calvin Mullet of Homemakers International is taken prisoner by the ruthless Marais and attempts to sell him a policy, their fortunes become strangely interwoven ... |
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