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1897. In an isolated station in the Belgian Congo, an Englishman awaits trial for the murder of a native child. Imprisoned in a makeshift gaol, Nicholas Frere awaits the arrival of the Company's official investigator, while his friend, James Frasier, attempts to determine the circumstances which surround the charge.
The world around them is rapidly changing: the horrors of the Belgian Congo are becoming known and the flow of its once-fabulous wealth is drying up. Unrest flares unstoppably into violence.
Frere's coming trial will seek to determine considerably more than the killing of a child. But at the heart of this conflict lies a secret so dark, so unimaginable, that one man must be willingly destroyed by his possession of it, and the other must both sanction and participate in that destruction.
'More disturbing even than Conrad in his depiction of the heart of darkness . . . it will be surprising if this year sees a more disturbing or haunting novel' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'Relentless . . . an impressive and disturbing work of art' Robert Nye, Literary Review
'Edric describes a compelling plot in fine, spare prose' David Isaacson, Daily Telegraph
The world around them is rapidly changing: the horrors of the Belgian Congo are becoming known and the flow of its once-fabulous wealth is drying up. Unrest flares unstoppably into violence.
Frere's coming trial will seek to determine considerably more than the killing of a child. But at the heart of this conflict lies a secret so dark, so unimaginable, that one man must be willingly destroyed by his possession of it, and the other must both sanction and participate in that destruction.
'More disturbing even than Conrad in his depiction of the heart of darkness . . . it will be surprising if this year sees a more disturbing or haunting novel' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'Relentless . . . an impressive and disturbing work of art' Robert Nye, Literary Review
'Edric describes a compelling plot in fine, spare prose' David Isaacson, Daily Telegraph
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"'Relentless . . . an impressive and disturbing work of art'" (Robert Nye Literary Review)
"'Precise and compelling . . . maintains a relentless hold on the reader's interest . . . a fable about versions of truth and moral responsibility. It also belongs to a very British tradition: the mapping of non-Europe as a nightmare world in which the European psyche confronts its own dark madness'" (Aamer Hussein Independent)
"'Rendered in prose whose steadiness and transparency throw the dark turbulence of what is happening into damning relief'" (Peter Kemp The Sunday Times)
"'A very gripping story . . . the reader is drawn in inexorably to discover what horror lies at the heart of it . . . an apocalyptic fable for today'" (John Spurling The Times Literary Supplement)
"'Many respectable judges would put Edric in the top ten of British novelists currently at work . . . as a writer, he specialises in the delicate hint and the game not given away'" (D.J. Taylor Spectator)
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"'Precise and compelling . . . maintains a relentless hold on the reader's interest . . . a fable about versions of truth and moral responsibility. It also belongs to a very British tradition: the mapping of non-Europe as a nightmare world in which the European psyche confronts its own dark madness'" (Aamer Hussein Independent)
"'Rendered in prose whose steadiness and transparency throw the dark turbulence of what is happening into damning relief'" (Peter Kemp The Sunday Times)
"'A very gripping story . . . the reader is drawn in inexorably to discover what horror lies at the heart of it . . . an apocalyptic fable for today'" (John Spurling The Times Literary Supplement)
"'Many respectable judges would put Edric in the top ten of British novelists currently at work . . . as a writer, he specialises in the delicate hint and the game not given away'" (D.J. Taylor Spectator)
Robert Edric's breakout book, a stunning novel set in colonial Congo
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0552999253
- ISBN 13 9780552999250
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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