Rules of the wild

Francesca Marciano

Original title: Rules of the Wild

first published 1998 Goldmann, 2000 348 pages

A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys...

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Rules of the Wild edition · 2009 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307559494
Himmel über Afrika edition · 2000 · Goldmann · 348 pages
Rules of the Wild edition · 1999 · Vintage · 304 pages
Rules of the wild edition · 1998 · Pantheon Books · 293 pages
Rules of the wild edition · 1998 · Jonathan Cape · 306 pages
Himmel über Afrika hardcover · 1998 · Karl Blessing Verlag · 352 pages · 9783896670595
Cielo scoperto edition · 1998 · Mondadori

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