The Catastrophist
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781596913059
Subjects: Novelists; American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; Women journalists; Fiction / General; General; Congo (Democratic Republic); Decolonization
First sentence: The pitted sponge of jungle gives way to scrub and sand.