Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, clings to power whilst his soldiers switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear. All in all, Zambawi is not the ideal location for student teacher Jim Tulloh to indu[...]
Pinballing around the major cities of the world, from where it all began in the projects of Brooklyn and the Bronx to the excessive madness of Tokyo, from the random violence of Johannesburg, to the shanty towns of Rio, Whitbread Award-winning writer Patrick Neate explores the way how, through hip h[...]
A Whitbread Novel Award-winning work by the author of Musungu Jim finds tormented young musician Lick Holden setting early twentieth-century New Orleans on fire with his jazz performances while desperately searching for his lost stepsister, Sylvie. Reprint.[...]