'A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay.' - Esquire
'Ambitious ... the book works well, as a story, as a compendium of reflections on race and nationhood and as a novel with a refined and distinctive narrative voice and one marvellously complete character, the old White Kenyan, Tom Fairfax ... an elegantly complex, unfailingly intelligent novel' - The Spectator
'Cartwright makes his pages as vividly sensuous as they are caustically intelligent' - The Sunday Times
- ISBN10 0333592816
- ISBN13 9780333592816
- Publish Date 27 August 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English