Strange Love
William Boyd, 1 December 1983
African Princess
by Princess Elizabeth of Toro.
Hamish Hamilton, 230 pp., £9.95, September 1983,0 241 11002 5 Show More
by Princess Elizabeth of Toro.
Hamish Hamilton, 230 pp., £9.95, September 1983,
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowsa-Brand.
Quartet, 164 pp., £7.95, October 1983,0 7043 2415 6 Show More
by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowsa-Brand.
Quartet, 164 pp., £7.95, October 1983,
“... In an African country, an Englishman – a senior consultant engineer for an oil company – checks into the best hotel in the capital city. The next morning, eating his breakfast by candlelight (the electricity has failed), he is disturbed by a steady drip of water onto the table in front of him. An inquiry soon establishes that this is an overflow from malfunctioning lavatories on the floor above – quite a regular occurrence ... ”
