The Weather in Africa

Martha Gellhorn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Eland Publishing Ltd

Published:18th Sep '06

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The Weather in Africa cover

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.

ISBN: 9780907871781

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Weight: unknown

256 pages

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