The Weather in Africa: Three Novellas - Softcover

Gellhorn, Martha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 090787178X ISBN 13: 9780907871781

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. Meanwhile, a heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea.

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Review:

An authentic sense of the divorce between Africa and what Europeans carry in their heads. -- Robert Nye, The Guardian

Brilliantly told and so atmospheric. -- Sharon Griffiths, The Northern Echo

I think anyone who picks up this book is certainly not going to put it down again. -- Francis King, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4

This is a pungent and witty book. -- Jeremy Brooks, The Sunday Times

This is a stunningly good book. -- Victoria Glendinning, The New York Times

Synopsis:

Martha Gellhorn's three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It is a story of rejection and enchantment. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures in the great to their parents' hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in a scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. A heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday by the sea. A lonely, awkward young Englishman, disorientated by years as a prisoner-of-war, orphaned by bombs in London, seeks a new life in the highlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 090787178X
• ISBN 13: 9780907871781
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256