A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered for. A salesman in Africa gets caught up in a riot, and a Palestinian suicide bomber has a moment of self-doubt. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. With wry humor and razor-sharp satire, these twelve thought-provoking stories illuminate the moral uncertainty of our time.
My favorite stories were “Powder,” and “Sound,” respectively. Something about their dully enlightened family men excitedly toying with crime. The rest were good, if not completely memorable, and I’m pretty sure at least two made me never want to travel foreign countries again, so. A success?
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