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The first major novel by the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection Whites.
A comedy of manners on the grandest scale, the story revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa. It follows a woman's search for a worthy male, which takes her from her academic anthropology studies to a utopian matriarchal community in Botswana. A modern, international, male rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, this is a bold and extraordinary book.
Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
A comedy of manners on the grandest scale, the story revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa. It follows a woman's search for a worthy male, which takes her from her academic anthropology studies to a utopian matriarchal community in Botswana. A modern, international, male rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, this is a bold and extraordinary book.
Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
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"The best novel this year, and doubtless for some to come... the whole is not only dizzyingly readable, but also has that feeling, rare and unforgettable in contemporary fiction, of everything being at stake - ethically, emotionally and imaginatively" (Independent)
"A comedy of manners crackling with ideas: about feminism, commitment, politics, Africa and the West. Rush brilliantly sustains the voice of his central character... and makes the post-colonial city and the new community itself familiar and concrete" (Observer)
"[A] striking success" (Guardian)
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"A comedy of manners crackling with ideas: about feminism, commitment, politics, Africa and the West. Rush brilliantly sustains the voice of his central character... and makes the post-colonial city and the new community itself familiar and concrete" (Observer)
"[A] striking success" (Guardian)
'One of the most hypnotic reading experiences I've ever had... every feminist would be proud to claim this extraordinary novel as her own' - Margaret Forster, Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0099207915
- ISBN 13 9780099207917
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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