From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides) comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy, and accidental authority.
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As the leaders of European imperialism bargain and allocate, their allegiances to each other constantly shifting and the political game ever more trepidatious, Strinetzky will be relieved to make it through the next two days alive, if not with honour intact. But, as it turns out, much more is riding on Strinetzky’s hapless maneuverings than his own life.
In Afrika, Daniel Kehlmann lays bare the absurdity and brutality of empire with imagination and deadly wit.
