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Item Details
| Title:
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POOR MERCY
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| By: |
Jonathan Falla |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1904598285 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781904598282 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2005 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Jo Falla, the author of "Blue Poppies", has followed up with a novel set in the shimmering deserts of Western Sudan. Ten years in the writing, the book is uncannily prescient of events in recent months. |
| Synopsis: |
Set in Darfur, the novel is a dramatic and tragic story of an improbable love between two people caught up in an African famine: Mogga and Leila, a black and an Arab, should supposedly not even like each other. But, as the country teeters on the edge of catastrophic famine and civil war looms, they cling to each other's dignity, humour and humanity. Both work for the same European aid agency. Both are vulnerable, targets for hatred and resentment. Both are strangely, triumphantly resilient. Based on his own experience of disaster agencies, Falla's novel is fiercely authentic, poignant and darkly witty. As the expatriates bicker, their English team leader struggles to unravel the evil politics behind the famine, and reaches a highly controversial decision. But he may not be able to save the local people who have put themselves on the line. The foreigners can always take themselves off home when things go wrong; for the locals, it may already be too late as the book builds towards a terrifying climax. A novel rich in drama and irony, and set in a vast and eerily beautiful landscape. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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