on the edge of the great rift - Paul Theroux fantasy Ruby knows without being told

Ruby knows without being told that their aunt’s home will not be opened up to them – charity does not extend to the poor relations who would cast a smudge on such a respectable house

since the whole enterprise is carried off with a touch of Mozartian levity

they are considered socially inferior

Suky is still trying to fool her parents that Jit is her boyfriend instead of Imi

" five-year-old Peter

on the edge of the great rift - Paul Theroux fantasy Ruby knows without being toldThree comic and sinister novels set against Africas vibrant landscape. Fong and the Indians: A Chinese immigrant in a ramshackle East African country, Sam Fong is reduced to scraping a living as a grocer. Outnumbered by Africans and outfoxed by Indians, Fong is nevertheless a survivor, and survival in East Africa depends on one thing: making friends with the enemy Girls at Play: Miss Poole runs an isolated school for African girls in the Kenyan bush.