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Masai Dreaming

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Masai Dreaming
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Justin Cartwright
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780340768365
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Illustrations N/A

Publishing Details

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint Sceptre
Publication Date 20 July 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay. Cartwright tellingly contrasts the supposed savagery of the dark continent with the very real barbarism of Nazi Germany and the modern world' Esquire 'Ambitious ... the book works well, as a story, as a compendium of reflections on race and nationhood and as a novel with a refined and distinctive narrative voice and one marvellously complete character, the old White Kenyan, Tom Fairfax ... an elegantly complex, unfailingly intelligent novel' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Spectator

Author Biography

Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and at Oxford University. His books include LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, INTERIOR, and IN EVERY FACE I MEET, which was shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize. His latest novel LEADING THE CHEERS won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1998

Reviews

There is nothing tired or derivative here; the writing is sharp, the characters vividly drawn, the narrative sinuous . . . it confirms Cartwright's individuality and promise . . . In its bold design, as well as its wonderfully detailed portrait of African village life, it achieves real distinction * Sunday Telegraph * Cartwright makes his pages as vividly sensuous as they are caustically intelligent * The Sunday Times * It is like a little death to put this book down * Times Literary Supplement * The book works well, as a story, as a compendium of reflections on race and nationhood and as a novel with a refined and distinctive narrative voice . . . an elegantly complex, unfailingly intelligent novel * Spectator * Remarkable . . . The prose is spare and exact, yet glorious * Daily Mail * There is so much to take in along the way, so many essential truths, so much pain and beauty, that Masai Dreaming takes on the compulsive quality of a dream from which one is reluctant to awake. If I were ever asked to select a few books that might help to change the world, Cartwright's would be near the top of the list * Midweek * A provocative novel * Esquire *