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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 2012
On Sale: May 22, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0547746504
EAN: 9780547746500
Kindle: B005LVR740
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Fiction
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? Interweaving memory and desire, hope and despair, salvation
and damnation, this is a hypnotic, compelling, and brilliant
return to a terrain about which no one has ever written
better than Theroux.
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