Description
After the collapse of his marriage and business, Ellis Hock returns to the remote Malawian village where he once served as a Peace Corps volunteer, convinced that Africa holds the happiness he has lost. Instead, he finds a community transformed by poverty, aid, ambition, and time—and discovers that the people and place he idealized no longer exist as he remembers them. As his attempt to reclaim the past grows increasingly fraught, the novel explores disillusionment, cultural misunderstanding, moral responsibility, and the complicated legacies of charity and colonialism. Unflinching and provocative, it is a psychologically charged story about longing, belonging, and the dangerous distance between memory and reality.
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paperback
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Jan 1, 2012
323 pages
ISBN: 9780547746500
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Details
First Published
2012
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Lower River by Paul Theroux.