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“[An] amusing and elegantly structured tour de force.” —The New York Times
“Comparisons with Isak Dinesen are inevitable and Tefuga does not suffer by such comparisons.” —Houston Chronicle
“For sheer storytelling power, Tefuga is wonderful. The characters are alive, the setting dazzles, and the blazing Africa sun almost brings a rash to the back of your neck.” —The Washington Book World
“Stunning . . . [Dickinson’s] descriptions are extraordinarily vivid . . . and his climax is obliquely told yet an unforgettable moment of horror.” —Time
“Peter Dickinson’s technique is dazzling, and he writes as though there were witchdoctors present at his christening.” —The Guardian
“The works of Peter Dickinson are like caviar—an acquired taste that can easily become an addiction.” —Time
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“Comparisons with Isak Dinesen are inevitable and Tefuga does not suffer by such comparisons.” —Houston Chronicle
“For sheer storytelling power, Tefuga is wonderful. The characters are alive, the setting dazzles, and the blazing Africa sun almost brings a rash to the back of your neck.” —The Washington Book World
“Stunning . . . [Dickinson’s] descriptions are extraordinarily vivid . . . and his climax is obliquely told yet an unforgettable moment of horror.” —Time
“Peter Dickinson’s technique is dazzling, and he writes as though there were witchdoctors present at his christening.” —The Guardian
“The works of Peter Dickinson are like caviar—an acquired taste that can easily become an addiction.” —Time
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- PublisherArrow Books Ltd
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0099481901
- ISBN 13 9780099481904
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 256 pages. Cover worn.Reviews Sixty years after his mother, Betty Jackland, came from England to tribal, backwater, colonial Nigeria to marry his district-officer father, Ted arrives to make a documentary film based on her diary. Its pages recreate that t ime in detailthe life of an isolated woman in the overwhelmingly man's world of the British Empire; the ways of the resident Kitaw a and Hausa people; the ambiguities of ``indirect rule''; Betty's identification with native servants (including a houseboy who la ter rises to the rank of spiritual leader). Hovering over the sha dowy events of the past and over a present steeped in corruption and violence is a mysterious shaping event toward which the actio n moves. In 1921, in the shadow of Tefuga hill, the new emir sele cted by the British is killed by the Kitawa women. Given its clim actic significance, this act is strangely undramatizedoccurs, in fact, offstage. While prolific writer Dickinson (The House Party delivers a smoothly phrased, interesting narrative, it is somewha t marred by a sense of anticlimax and a profusion of pedestrian d etail. (April 21). Seller Inventory # 3271l
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