Oil on Water

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ISBN-10: 0393339645
ISBN-13: 9780393339642
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 05/16/2011
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 0.70" H

Oil on Water

byHelon Habila

Paperback

Price: $15.95

Overview

As Rufus and Zaq navigate polluted rivers flanked by exploded and dormant oil wells, in search of “the white woman,” they must contend with the brutality of both government soldiers and militants. Assailed by irresolvable versions of the “truth” about the woman’s disappearance, dependent on the kindness of strangers of unknowable loyalties, their journalistic objectivity will prove unsustainable, but other values might yet salvage their human dignity.

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Starred Review. A cinematic adventure and a remarkably tense race against the clock set in a haunting world of mangroves, floating villages, and jungle shrines–but it is also a brooding political tragedy in the Graham Greene tradition, one that illustrates the environmental and human costs of resource extraction in corrupt, postcolonial Africa....his mournful vision of the world never eclipses its fragile beauty, or its humanity.– "Publishers Weekly"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393339645
ISBN-13: 9780393339642
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 05/16/2011
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 0.70" H
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