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Fellow travellers
Not having visited the tropics has not been seen as a drawback for a number of writers who have written ‘rainforest’ novels. Jenny Diski who wrote “Rainforest” (1987) – which is a fine novel – happily admits that for her … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, books, Brian Hennigan, Evelyn Waugh, fiction, Jenny Diski, Latin America, Liberia, Primo Levi, Russell Banks, William Powers
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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano’s best-known works are “Las venas abiertas de América Latina” [The Open Veins of Latin America] (1971) and “Memoria del fuego” [Memory of Fire] (1982-1986). Neither are necessarily works of fiction and only a few references are made to … Continue reading
Sasabonsam
“The Evil Forest” is a short story in a collection the “Marriage of Wisdom and other stories from Liberia” by Wilton Sankawulo. Originally published by Heinemann Educational Books in 1974 and reprinted in 1981, the copy that I found in … Continue reading
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Tagged Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, books, Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fagunwa, fiction, Liberia, Wilton Sankawulo
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