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An edition of Rules of the Wild (1998)

Rules of the wild

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa.

At the center is Esme, a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating.

Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless physical freedom and escalating civil unrest, Esme struggles to make sense of her own place in Africa and of her feelings for the two men there whom she loves - Adam, a second-generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the wonders of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors.

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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
293

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Rules of the Wild
Rules of the Wild
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
E-book in English
Cover of: Himmel über Afrika
Himmel über Afrika: Roman
2000, Goldmann
Taschenbuch in German - 6. Auflage
Cover of: Rules of the wild
Rules of the wild
1999, Vintage
in English - 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Cover of: Rules of the Wild
Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
September 7, 1999, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Rules of the wild
Rules of the wild
1998, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Rules of the wild
Rules of the wild
1998, Jonathan Cape
in English
Cover of: Cielo scoperto
Cielo scoperto
1998, Mondadori
in Italian

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9120.9.M36 R8 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 p. ;
Number of pages
293

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL351525M
ISBN 10
0375403582
LCCN
98010963
OCLC/WorldCat
38216699
Library Thing
7322
Goodreads
3230656

First Sentence

"In a way everything here is always secondhand."

Work Description

A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties, they sleep with each other, they argue about politics and the best way to negotiate their existence in a place where they don't really belong. At the center is Esme, a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating. Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless physical freedom and escalating civil unrest, Esme struggles to make sense of her own place in Africa and of her feelings for the two men there whom she loves--Adam, a second-generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the wonders of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors. Rules of the Wild evokes the worlds of Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, and Ernest Hemingway. It explores unforgettably our infinite desire for a perfect elsewhere, for love and a place to call home. It is an astonishing literary debut.From the Hardcover edition.

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