The Catastrophist

by Ronan Bennett

$25 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods · No longer available

First edition

Hardcover, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. This book is a brilliant, highly acclaimed novel of love, passion, violence, and desire, set in the Belgian Congo in 1959. While expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise soon to erupt into chaos, huge crowds are drawn to the charismatic Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba

• Binding: Hardcover

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