The lower river Theroux, Paul. creator text novel Adventure fiction. Fiction. mau Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012 monographic eng
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323 p. ; 24 cm. Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again. Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember him--the White Man with no fear of snakes--and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap? Paul Theroux. f-mw--- Self-realization Fiction Africa Fiction PS3570.H4 L69 2012 813/.54 9780547746500 0547746504 2011036975 DLC 110928 20251125100903.0 16980390 eng