num_pages: 144
description: The relationship between a student and a literary teacher provides the framework for this clever novel-within-a-novel. A teacher, Maude, is enamored of a girl in a bar. He writes the story of her former boyfriend, and Maude's student is the first person to read the novel. Capturing modern Nigeria with its decaying standards, militarism, and poverty, Bandele Thomas's prose also yearns on every page for something good and worth holding onto in society.
language: English
title: The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond
titlecomplete: The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (African Writers Series)
genres: Novels
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Heinemann