Navigation of a Rainmaker (African Writers Series) - Softcover

Mahjoub, Jamal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435905600 ISBN 13: 9780435905606

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 1989

Synopsis

It is a place where humans may scratch an existence - until the rains fail. Then the people must go to the towns, and an age-old, elemental way of life confronts a newer society, one that strives to be part of the modern world but is itself built on shifting sand. Tanner is a stranger in this, his father's land, Sudan. He travelled here from his mother's arid England in search of some kind of fulfilment, but now he is stranded in the stagnant pool of Khartoum, a silent witness to the suffering around him. The current of his life quickens with the arrival of a mysterious American, who may be technocrat or terrorist. With him Tanner travels south, into the heart of the desert, where there is no more room for compromise...

About this title

Synopsis:

Traces a journey that is more than lines on a map. The reader travels into a present-day Africa beset with contradictions and contrasts, enduring the ancient scourges of famine and war, into the struggling mind of a man trying to come to terms with his life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0435905600
• ISBN 13: 9780435905606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192