White Highlands
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ナレーター:
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David Thorpe
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著者:
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John McGhie
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Shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award.
Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda, but the servants can't be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is stirring.
Johnny Seymour has seen too much war and seeks solace photographing East African wildlife. But when isolated white families are slaughtered by Mau Mau gangs, the British respond brutally, and Johnny is reluctantly pulled into the horror. After his African driver, Macharia, disappears, Johnny is forced to confront shocking truths about his own country and ask how far he'll go to help a friend.
Nearly 60 years later, disgraced young barrister Sam Seymour knows nothing about her grandfather. Even his name is taboo. All she understands is that Johnny did something so awful that his only son - her father - had to be rescued from Kenya. Now, as veteran Mau Mau fighters demand reparations for past sins, she's been offered a chance to unpeel history and discover why.
In a narrative spanning the generations, White Highlands follows Sam and Johnny as they confront the might of the British state. One man stands in both their ways - Grogan Littleboy, a ruthless colonial survivor who'll do anything to defeat Mau Mau, past and present. A startlingly original novel set in both the present day and Kenya in the 1950s during the Mau Mau uprising - one of the least known and darkest episodes in British colonial history.
©2017 John McGhie (P)2017 Little Brown批評家のレビュー
'Remarkable and redemptive . . . like the best of John le Carre' A. L. Kennedy