Book of the Heathen A Novel of the Congo

Name: Book of the Heathen A Novel of the Congo
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ISBN: 9780312288884

ISBN-10: 0312288883

ISBN-13: 9780312288884

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Edric

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1897. In an isolated station in the Belgian Congo, an Englishman is to be tried for the murder of a native child. Imprisoned in a makeshift jail, Nicholas Frere awaits the arrival of the Company's official investigator while his friend, James Frasier, attempts to discover the circumstances which surround the charge. The world around them is rapidly changing: the horrors of the Belgian Congo are becoming known and the flow of its once-fabulous wealth is drying up. Unrest flares unstoppably into violence. Frere's coming trial will seek to determine considerably more than the killing of a child. But at the heart of this conflict is a secret so dark, so unimaginable, that one man must be…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/9/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (1985 James Tait Black Prize winner), A New Ice Age (1986 runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize), A Lunar Eclipse, The Earth Made of Glass, Elysium, In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen (shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award) and Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002). Cradle Song is the first book in the Song Cycle Trilogy, which is completed by Siren Song and Swan Song.