Whiteman - A Novel

Tony D? Souza has written a frank, funny, humane novel full of true news about the intermittent tragedy that is contemporary Africa. Many of the paradoxes of Western aid giving are on display here, as a young American development worker attempts, over a period of three years, to discover what he is doing in Africa. The illuminations, seductions, and ultimate costs of the narrator?s adventurous assimilation into West African village life are presented with sensitivity, and with great drama, in tersely lyrical prose....

Some shelf wear and damage to extremities. Tear in front jacket.