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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 02/10/2010
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ISBN: 9781407086620
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Length: 288 Pages
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RRP: £6.98
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD
Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 02/10/2010
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ISBN: 9781407086620
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Length: 288 Pages
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RRP: £6.98
Reviews
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"Primarily a novel about the moral consequences of religious belief, but it is almost as importantly a novel about colonialism"
Independent
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"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings"
The Times
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"Here is this man who can represent ordinary life, ordinary troubles, and make them exciting to read about"
Guardian
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"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy"
New York Times
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"Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within"
Independent
