num_pages: 318
description: Henderson is a rich hard-drinking middle-aged American tycoon. On an impulse he walks out of his marriage - to 'darkest Africa.' But this is not so much the Africa we know from the foreign correspondents as a mysterious land of myth and magic. How - in a fantastic ceremonial trial of strength - he rises to the rank of rain-maker to a primitive tribe and becomes right-hand man to a local chief is an extravagantly funny and wildly energetic story - Saul Bellow, in fact.
language: English
title: Henderson the Rain King
titlecomplete: Henderson the Rain King
characters: King Dahfu, Romilayu, Eugene Henderson
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 15185
places: Africa
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: London: Penguin 1973.