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Peters, Lenrie: The Second Round

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Sachgebiet:	Belletristik
Inhalt:	Full of anticipation, Dr. Kawa returns to Sierra Leone after qualifying in England. But he finds Freetown strangely alien to him, an uneasy mixture of traditional African society and the world he has left behind in England. European customs and society have made their mark: the world of the whisky and soda, the fast car, the opulent house, the credit account, is here in Freetown. KawaŽs mother and his friends expect him to take up his Žproper placeŽ in local society, and his uncertainty, his apparent reluctance to do so, to marry and settle down, to acquire possessions, only confuse them. He drifts into a friendship with Laura, but leaves her when he finds her with a lover; then he is drawn into the unhappy lives of Marshall, his wife Clare, and her lover Freddie, already dying of cancer of the nose. But even they cannot provide the anchor he needs: with the disintegration of their lives there is nothing to keep Kawa in Freetown. Once again he leaves, this time to serve in a lonely up-country hospital (source: book cover)
Verlag:	Heinemann Educational Books, African Writers Series
Erscheinungsjahr, -ort:	1965, 1st ed., London, Ibadan, Nairobi
ISBN:	0 435 90022 6
Auflage:	several reprints, at the moment out of print
Bemerkung:	Lenrie Peters was born in Banjul (the former Bathurst), Gambia, in 1932. in 1949 he moved to Sierra Leone and went to Prince of Wales School, Freetown, where he gained his Higher School Certificate in science subjects. In 1952 he left Freetown to study in England. In between reading Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming President of the African StudentsŽ Union, interesting himself in politics (he is a Pan-Africanist) and writing poetry and plays, he started "The Second Round". After qualifying in medicine in London he did special work in surgery and is now practising in The Gambia. Two collections of his poetry "Satellites" and "Katchikali", also appear in the African Writers Series (source: book cover, 1979)
Sprache:	English

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