Death in the Rainy Season (ePub)

Name: Death in the Rainy Season
Brand: Cuidono Press
SKU: 144703003
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Autor: Mary Martin Devlin

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Recently widowed, Sarah Laforge arrives in Zaire to take up her new post at the U.S. Embassy, determined to find meaningful work. The year is 1989 and the expatriate Europeans and Americans Sarah encounters in Kinshasa live in a privileged world where they drink, flirt, and gossip about who is sleeping with whom. But throughout all of this petty activity important business is getting done. Information is being gathered. Big power plays are being made. Jacques Delpech, a Belgian businessman born and raised in Zaire, also moves in these circles. His deep commitment to the country opens up another world for Sarah, while her idealism and openness help to soften his own painful memories. As a plot to overthrow the dictator Mobutu gains momentum, power, corruption, and sexual jealousy threaten to shatter their idyllic love affair.

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For several years in the eighties, Mary Martin Devlin lectured in francophone Africa for the United States Information Agency. During one of those tours she met, and later married, the legendary CIA officer, Larry Devlin, in Kinshasa, Zaire. Because of his many years in Africa, she was welcomed in his circles of friends in all levels of Zairian society. She spent many hours with Mobutu, his family, and his entourage as well as with opposition leaders eager to share their grievances. After leaving Africa, she didn't want to forget what life was like there: the breathtaking beauty of the country along with its squalor and misery, the chronic political maneuvering, the abusive power of corporations like big oil, and, of course, the expatriate life. In all those years, the individuals who touched her the most were the Europeans who had grown up in Zaire, the children of missionaries, for example, or of Belgian colonials. They felt like foreigners in Europe, they believed with all their heart that Africa was their home, and they were devoted to Zaire and optimistic about its future. When she decided to write this novel, she knew that it would revolve around the plight of one of these Europeans.

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Autor: Mary Martin Devlin
2022, 2. Auflage, 254 Seiten, Englisch
Verlag: Cuidono Press
ISBN-10: 1944453253
ISBN-13: 9781944453251
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2022

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