Maria Thomas

• Oct-1987
• / General Fiction
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By the author of Antonia Saw the Oryx First comes a book of characters who, for their own personal reasons, come to Africa and find not the exotic retreat they imagined but a country where reality shines even more harshly....

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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The sort of book friends press in your hands and say, You must read this. "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Isak Dinesen . . . Rebecca West . . . Gertrude Stein and Edith Wharton. To this company, in the tradition of Hemingway and others, and in many ways a...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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"A complex, deeply written and finely wrought double portrait of two women, one black, one white, picking their way through the debris of a shattered colonialism, discovering unexpected treasures buried in the rubble."--Margaret Atwood "Impressive."-...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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“Some fine writer . . . Waugh rewired for the 80s.” -- Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal
 
“She has a gift.” -- Los Angeles Times
 
“Impressive.” -- Chicago Tribune
 
“Her stories will do more than a sc...