The Catastrophist

Ronan Bennett

Language: English

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: Feb 27, 2001

Pages: 305
ABC: 1

Description:

Set in the Belgian Congo before its independence, this novel deals with the doomed love of novelist James Gillespe for the idealistic journalist Ines. She is caught up in the swirling political tide and he being willfully apolitical finds himself drawn into violence and betrayal, moved by love to a final act of nobility.