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After the death of her father, a noted Italian poet, Esmeralda flees the rigidity of European society to seek a new life in a white expatriate community of East Africa, where she finds herself torn between two very different men. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Tour.
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g novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.
Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties, they sleep with each other, they argue about politics and the best way to negotiate their existence in a place where they don't really belong.
At the center is Esmé, a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating. Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless physical free
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- VerlagPantheon Books
- Erscheinungsdatum1998
- ISBN 10 0375403582
- ISBN 13 9780375403583
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten293
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