Book Summary

Francesca Mariano evokes the startlingly exotic world of contemporary expatriates living in Nairobi. Relief workers befriend wildlife researchers, artists exchange their intimate secrets with documentary filmmakers. they meet at dinner parties, they make love, they argue about the best way to negotiate their existence in a land they can never home to claim. Combining the romanticism of Isak Dinesen with language reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway, Maricano juxtaposes the magnificent beauty of the Kenyan landscape with the human capacity for carelessness and brutality.

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