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.
Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdISBN: 9780907871781Number of pages: 256
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