The Catastrophist: a novel

By - Bennett, Ronan; Rijnaarts, Josephine

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Simon & Schuster, New York, [1999], 1997

ISBN 10 - 0747260338

ISBN 13 - 9780747260332

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Congo (Democratic Republic)

Shelf No - 8

Call Number - 823.914 BEN

Physical Description - 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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A romance between two journalists in 1960s Africa disintegrates over politics. She is an Italian who supports the Congolese war of independence against Belgium, he is an Irishman who sides with the whites. She takes a black lover, he a white one. A study in decolonization by an Irish writer

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