Query: Novels that are set in Belgian Congo or in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Gorilla Adventure
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
The Nun's Story
The Afrika Reich
The Leopard's Wife
A Burnt-Out Case
The Mission Song
The Poisonwood Bible
Gangrene (book)
Evidence from documents: Gorilla Adventure: '''''Gorilla Adventure''''' is a 1969 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. It depicts an expedition to capture a giant mountain gorilla for a circus.


The location was post-colonial Congo. As usual, the greatest danger posed to the brothers, and to the animals, came not from the wild beasts but in the form of humans. The two main primary antagonists were: one inept, boastful but cowardly Belgian (Andre Tieg) who passes himself off as a guide, and a poacher of gorillas, called Nero, whose primary method was to slaughter all adults and take the young gorillas.
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy: The novel is set in the present day Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Nun's Story: The lead character of the book, Sister Luke (pre-convent name Gabrielle Van Der Mal), finds her faith tested in Africa where she finds herself at odds with headstrong Dr. Fortunati, operator of a remote hospital in the Belgian Congo
The Afrika Reich: A sequel, ''The Madagaskar Plan'', was published in 2015 and begins shortly after the first book's events.
The story is based around the British mercenary Burton Cole, who has been dispatched on a secret mission by the British government to assassinate Walter Hochburg, the German governor-general of the Kongo. The plot occurs against the backdrop of increasing tensions between Britain and Germany that threaten to disrupt the uneasy truce, made in 1940.
The Leopard's Wife: Pickering travelled down the Congo River in the last stages of the war from Kisangani to Kinshasa to research the novel but had been planning the story partially based in a public school for 15 years.
A Burnt-Out Case: '''''A Burnt-Out Case''''' (1960) is a novel by English author Graham Greene, set in a leper colony on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa.


Querry, a famous architect who is fed up with his celebrity, no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously in the late 1950s at a Congo leper colony overseen by Catholic missionaries, he is diagnosed – by Dr Colin, the resident doctor who is himself an atheist
The Mission Song: '''''The Mission Song''''' is a thriller/espionage novel by John le Carré, published in 2006. Set against the background of the chaotic East Congo, the story involves the planning of a Western-backed coup in the province of Kivu, told from the worm's-eye view of the hapless interpreter. Although the events are fictional, the book evokes a rich and detailed picture of the political and ethnic tensions of the region, highlighting the greed and amorality of local bureaucrats and Western interests, and calling attention to the apathy of the British press about the continuing humanitarian crisis of the Congo War.
The Poisonwood Bible: '''''The Poisonwood Bible''''' (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.
Gangrene (book): The narrator bears the author’s name, and the book is widely considered to be a fictionalized yet largely autobiographical account of Geeraerts’ experiences in the Belgian Congo towards the end of the Belgian colonial era, leading towards the Congo’s independence in 1960.