The Weather in Africa by Martha Gellhorn
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.The author of The Face of War and The View from the Ground is Martha Gellhorn, a renowned war correspondent and peacetime writer. Weather in Africa and Honeyed Peace: Tales are two of her best-known works of fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780907871781 |
| ISBN 10 | 090787178X |
| Title | The Weather in Africa |
| Author | Martha Gellhorn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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