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Whiteman by Tony D'Souza

Travel
March 2007
Paperback (198 x 129mm)
£8.99
288pp
978 1 84627 075 8
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'Tony D'Souza pulls off a rare feat, turning what was clearly intensely-lived personal experience into prose that is as poetic as it is immediate and unflinching.' Michela Wrong, author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz

'An accomplished portrait of life in Ivory Coast, written with a descriptive control that is reminiscent of Hemingway...' Literary Review

'Detailed, meticulous and convincing' Aminatta Forna, Guardian

Young, American, and idealistic, the Whiteman bounds into the Ivory Coast with a deep desire to Make a Difference. But then the NGO's funding dries up and he's stranded, unable to establish a water supply for the village and with plenty of time on his hands. Taking place against the backdrop of bloody civil war, this is the story of a whiteman losing his aid-worker illusions and discovering a different, more complicated Africa: perplexing and brutal, beguiling and sexy.