“I would give this 4 1/2 stars if I could. It's hard for me to say exactly why I enjoyed this novel so much because Greene's prose is not, on the face of it, particularly distinctive. His writing *voice* though registers loud and clear and the way he adeptly managed each scene in his novel was a pleasure to read. Through his characters, their conversations and their foibles you see Greene's ideas being worked out, argued, thrown out, in a way that's not at all didactic but always, always interesting. And in the end, of course, nothing is solved precisely, or tied together, the story line is dropped and you're left with some very intriguing questions.
It was also a relief to see that his portrayal of Africa was not as problematic as it could have been, especially in light of the fact that many of Britain's former African and Caribbean colonies just gaining independence around the time it was published.”
Imani wrote this review Wednesday, January 9 2008.
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