This book's epilogue describes a group of Egyptian children who are whipped while scrounging for discarded sandwiches.
This book's epilogue describes a group of Egyptian children who are whipped while scrounging for discarded sandwiches. The narrator of one story in this collection speaks the title sentence while attending the wedding of his brother Dayo, who has squandered the money the narrator saved for Dayo's education. In its first section, two Lebanese travelers and a German humiliate an English tramp on a ferry leaving from Piraeus. Another story in this collection features an old colonel who runs a hotel and accuses his cook Peter of planning to kill him. This collection includes the stories "One Out of Many" and "Tell Me Who to Kill," as well as a novella in which a government official is beaten by soldiers at a checkpoint during an increasingly violent road trip. It is named for that novella, which is set in an unnamed African country and focuses on the English civilians Bobby and Linda. For 10 points, name this Booker Prize-winning collection about the lives of expatriates by V. S. Naipaul.
This book's epilogue describes a group of Egyptian children who are whipped while scrounging for discarded sandwiches.
In a Free State