Masai Dreaming

There is nothing tired or derivative here; the writing is sharp, the characters vividly drawn, the narrative sinuous … it confirms Cartwright’s individuality and promise … In its bold design, as well as its wonderfully detailed portrait of African village life, it achieves real distinction * Sunday Telegraph *Cartwright makes his pages as vividly sensuous as they are caustically intelligent * The Sunday Times *It is like a little death to put this book down * Times Literary Supplement *The book works well, as a story, as a compendium of reflections on race and nationhood and as a novel with a refined and distinctive narrative voice … an elegantly complex, unfailingly intelligent novel * Spectator *Remarkable … The prose is spare and exact, yet glorious * Daily Mail *There is so much to take in along the way, so many essential truths, so much pain and beauty, that Masai Dreaming takes on the compulsive quality of a dream from which one is reluctant to awake. If I were ever asked to select a few books that might help to change the world, Cartwright’s would be near the top of the list * Midweek *A provocative novel * Esquire *

Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and at Oxford University. His books include LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, INTERIOR, and IN EVERY FACE I MEET, which was shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize. His latest novel LEADING THE CHEERS won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1998.

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