West Africa
Sierra Leone
Contemporary
English
Fiction
A British psychologist arrives in post-war Sierra Leone and becomes entangled with a Sierra Leonean doctor and a dying professor whose memories span the country's descent into civil war.
Literary Significance
Commonwealth Writers' Prize; one of the finest novels about the psychological aftermath of African civil war
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editorial-summarynot primary textA British psychologist arrives in post-war Sierra Leone and becomes entangled with a Sierra Leonean doctor and a dying professor whose memories span the country's descent into civil war. Commonwealth Writers' Prize; one of the finest novels about the psychological aftermath of African civil war
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