Three comic and sinister novels set against Africa’s vibrant landscape. Fong and the Indians: A Chinese immigrant in a ramshackle East African country, Sam Fong is reduced to scraping a living as a grocer. Outnumbered by Africans and outfoxed by Indians, Fong is nevertheless a survivor, and survival in East Africa depends on one thing: making friends with the enemy… Girls at Play: Miss Poole runs an isolated school for African girls in the Kenyan bush. Her unmarried, white, female teachers’ common fear of Africa bonds them, but fear alone is no match for bitchery within the ranks… Jungle Lovers: Life is not easy in Malawi for the dedicated insurance salesman, nor for the revolutionary terrorist. So from the moment when Calvin Mullet of Homemakers International is taken prisoner by the ruthless Marais and attempts to sell him a policy, their fortunes become strangely interwoven…
Author
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travelogue writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. He is the father of Marcel and Louis Theroux, and the brother of Alexander and Peter. Justin Theroux is his nephew.
