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A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties, they sleep with each other, they argue about politics and the best way to negotiate their existence in a place where they don't really belong.At the center is Esmé, a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating. Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless...Title Parm A : Rules of the WildTitle Parm B : (Title Parm D : Rules of the WildTitle Parm F : Rules of the WildOriginal Source : Mirc New Files 12-04Single Author : Francesca MarcianoNumber of Words in Auth: 2All Identifiers : isbn:978-0-30

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Author

Francesca Marciano

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375703430

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel