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A Girl From Zanzibar (Paperback)
$14.95
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“A headstrong heroine zigzags from Zanzibar to America in Roger King’s daring new novel.”—Elaina Richardson, O magazine
“There is no safe haven, this brilliant, prescient novel suggests.”—Suzanne Ruta, The New York Times
Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award for Best Novel 2002.
About the Author
Born in London, Roger King is the author of three previous novels, Horizontal Hotel, Written on a Stranger's Map, and Sea Level. After traveling throughout Asia and Africa in the 1980's as an agricultural economist for various United Nations agencies, he turned to writing and teaching fulltime. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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