The Lower RiverHarperCollins, 22 mei 2012 - 336 pagina's “[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can’t help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A.”—Entertainment Weekly When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he’d been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember Ellis and welcome him with open arms. Soon, however, their overtures turn menacing; they demand money and refuse to let him leave the village. Is his new life an escape or a trap? “Theroux’s bravely unsentimental novel about a region where he began his own grand career should become part of anybody’s education in the continent.”—Washington Post “The Lower River is riveting in its storytelling and provocative in its depiction of this African backwater, infusing both with undertones of slavery and cannibalism, savagery and disease.”—New York Times Book Review |
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PART 2 The Mzunguat Malabo | 61 |
PART 3
Downriver | 145 |
PART 4
Snakes and Ladders | 211 |
PART 5 Ghost Dance
| 265 |
Preview of The TAO of Travel by Paul Theroux | 325 |
Back Flap | 24 |
Back Cover | 25 |
Spine | 26 |
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Africa Agency arrived asked Aubrey body breath bush called chief clearing cloth dance dark door dust dwarf edge Ellis English eyes face father fear feeling feet felt fingers fire flour Gala gave girl give gone hand he’d head hear heard heat held Hock Hock’s holding hope knew known laughed leave legs letter lifted light listening live looked Lower River Malabo Manyenga meant morning mouth move mzungu never night past perhaps remembered returned road seemed seen Sena shirt side sitting smiled snake someone speak spoke standing stepped stood stopped talk tell thing thought told took trees turned veranda village visited voice waiting walked watched whole woman women Zizi