Rules Of The Wild - Softcover

Marciano, Francesca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099288060 ISBN 13: 9780099288060

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

Synopsis

In the vast spaces of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of white expatriates. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and take the same drugs. Set in contemporary Nairobi, RULES OF THE WILD is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of both her place in Africa and her feelings for the two men she loves - Adam, a second-generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the beauty of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors. Romantic, often very funny and always compulsively readable, RULES OF THE WILD will be recognised as a classic novel about the white man in Africa, a book to sit beside OUT OF AFRICA and WHITE MISCHIEF.

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Review:

"Remarkable... Sensuous... Compellingly readable... Makes you feel as if you've come back from some place very far away" (USA Today)

"An intensely romantic novel... Worthy of Flaubert" (New York Times)

"An updated English Patient... Engaging... A page-turner... Intense and lyrical" (Elle)

Book Description:

At once a deeply romantic and fiercely lucid tale of white society in contemporary Nairobi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099288060
• ISBN 13: 9780099288060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224