Night-Flights
D.A.N. Jones, 18 September 1986
Search Sweet Country
byB. Kojo Laing.
Heinemann, 256 pp., £10.95, August 1986,0 434 40216 8 Show More
byB. Kojo Laing.
Heinemann, 256 pp., £10.95, August 1986,
The Jewel Maker
byTom Gallagher.
Hamish Hamilton, 180 pp., £9.95, April 1986,0 241 11866 2 Show More
byTom Gallagher.
Hamish Hamilton, 180 pp., £9.95, April 1986,
An After-Dinner’s Sleep
byStanley Middleton.
Hutchinson, 224 pp., £9.95, May 1986,0 09 163620 5 Show More
byStanley Middleton.
Hutchinson, 224 pp., £9.95, May 1986,
“... okra or sunsum, on the tops of banana trees, where they work magic. The Ghanaian novelist, B. Kojo Laing, makes use of this theory in his story of modern Accra, Search Sweet Country. It might be tempting to treat his novel as an example of ‘magical realism’, in the Latin American mode, but it is too realistic ... ”
