255 pages
English language
Published Nov. 21, 2004 by Penguin Books.
4 stars
(1 review)
Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.
Subjects
- Colonial administrators -- Fiction
- British -- Africa -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Catholics -- Fiction
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Africa, West -- Fiction