The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname
"Suriname, an almost secret place: very few people know this is the cradle of many famous football players, and almost nobody knows that these sport stars are the historical heirs of the Maroon slaves who once defeated Dutch colonialism. Andrew Westoll went deep inside the jungle, looking for a sacred, tiny, shining, blue frog, and discovered that perhaps hell and heaven have the same address."— Eduardo Galeano“Compelling … freewheeling and vividly written. The book is clammy with humidity, dense with allegorical undergrowth.”—Globe and Mail