The Lower River

Paul Theroux

The Lower River
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 April 2013
Pages
336
ISBN
9780241957745

The Lower River

Paul Theroux

A hypnotic, compelling and brilliant novel - set in terrain no one knows better than Theroux

Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness.

Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin. The people he remembers are poor, apathetic, hostile. The country labours as if under a great, invisible burden. However, Ellis is determined. This is his escape, a paradise regained.

But escape can be a snare, a trap for the unwary …

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