Author: MARCIANO, FRANCESCA
Title: Rules of the Wild
Description: London, Jonathan Cape. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224051237). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a little creasting to top edge and is not price clipped. The Italian author's FIRST NOVEL and which is based on her experiences in Kenya, where she now lives. Set in contemporary Nairobi it tells of a white expatriate community who all know each other, meet at dinner parties, share the same doctors, eat at the same restaurants, sleep with each other and take the same drugs. It is a sharp dissection of white society and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa and her love for two men, one a Kenyan and the other a British journalist. NOT EX LIB D4E. Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Kenya, Nairobi, Expatriate Life 0224051237


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