The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom.
With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.
- ISBN10 0771091702
- ISBN13 9780771091704
- Publish Date 31 December 1991
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 254
- Language English