The catastrophist
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ronan Bennett
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780684863344
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: A romance between two journalists in 1960s Africa disintegrates over politics. She is an Italian who supports the Congolese war of independence against Belgium, he is an Irishman who sides with the whites. She takes a black lover, he a white one. A study in decolonization by an Irish writer.