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Wiley, Richard

 
9780679457442: Ahmed's Revenge: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679457445 ISBN 13: 9780679457442
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Soldiers in Hiding locates his latest novel in Kenya during the 1970s, where a British woman investigates the death of her husband, who may have been an ivory smuggler. 20,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Richard Wiley is the author of four previous novels and a recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Soldiers in Hiding. He has lived and worked in Japan, Korea, Nigeria, and Kenya and, with the publication of Ahmed's Revenge, has set a novel in each of these locales.         Recently he has received grants from the NEA/Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the Japan Foundation, for work on a forthcoming novel. Richard Wiley is professor of fiction writing in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Richard Wiley is professor of fiction writing in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Aus dem Klappentext

n Richard Wiley's fiction live in the dangerous territory where cultures and worlds collide. In Soldiers in Hiding, for which Richard Wiley won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction in 1987, the protagonist was Teddy Maki, a Japanese-American whose jazz band was playing in Tokyo at the moment Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Now, in his new novel, Ahmed's Revenge, Wiley introduces us to Nora Grant, a young coffee farmer living in Kenya in the 1970s, a woman whose predicament is less obvious than Maki's but no less dangerous.
Nora has disbelievingly stumbled upon her husband, Julius, engaged in what appears to be ivory smuggling, one of the Europeans' dirtiest games. Before Nora can confront Julius, he is killed in accidental circumstances that soon look more like murder. Nora investigates her husband's affairs, coming across a succession of people whose lives intertwine and intersect: her own f

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679457445
ISBN 13 
9780679457442
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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