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The Catastrophist A Novel

-- Catastrofista, As colonial corruption and injustice give way to turmoil, brutality, and murder, Gillespie is finally forced to confront what is happening before his eyes. In subtle, haunting prose, Ronan Bennett captures the complex connection between the personal and the political, between cruelty and lust, between eroticism and love, between courage and fear, between detachment and involvement. The Catastrophist -- an erotic Heart of Darkness for the twentieth century.

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  • "Een Ierse schrijver volgt in 1959 zijn geliefde, een Italiaanse journaliste, naar de Congo waar zij midden in de vrijheidsstrijd van de Afrikaanse bevolking belanden."
  • "-- Catastrofista, As colonial corruption and injustice give way to turmoil, brutality, and murder, Gillespie is finally forced to confront what is happening before his eyes. In subtle, haunting prose, Ronan Bennett captures the complex connection between the personal and the political, between cruelty and lust, between eroticism and love, between courage and fear, between detachment and involvement. The Catastrophist -- an erotic Heart of Darkness for the twentieth century."@en
  • "A novel of the upheaval as the Congo seeks independence."@en
  • "A romance between two journalists in 1960s Africa disintegrates over politics. She is an Italian who supports the Congolese war of independence against Belgium, he is an Irishman who sides with the whites. She takes a black lover, he a white one. A study in decolonization by an Irish writer."@en
  • "A romance between two journalists in 1960s Africa disintegrates over politics. She is an Italian who supports the Congolese war of independence against Belgium, he is an Irishman who sides with the whites. She takes a black lover, he a white one. A study in decolonization by an Irish writer."

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  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Roman irlandais de langue anglaise"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "The catastrophist. Large print ed"
  • "Le catastrophiste : roman"
  • "The Catastrophist A Novel"@en
  • "Hart van Congo"
  • "Über den dunklen Fluss : Roman"
  • "The catastrophist"
  • "The catastrophist"@en
  • "The catastrophist a novel"@en
  • "The catastrophist : a novel"@en
  • "The catastrophist : a novel"
  • "The Catastrophist"

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