![]() ![]() You see people fixate on eating wonderfully despite the derisory palette Botswana offers. Suddenly you find otherwise serious people wedged in among the maids of the truly rich in the throng at the Chinese butchery, their faces clenched, determined to come away with one of the nine or ten half pints of crème fraîche that arrive from Mafikeng on Wednesdays at three. Elites are elites.īut in Africa you see middleclass white people you know for a fact are highly normal turn overnight into chainsmokers or heavy drinkers or gourmets. Africans are pretty ungreedy - elites excepted, naturally. A whole profession called Rural Animation exists devoted to making villagers want more and work harder to get it. The average black African has the opposite problem: he or she doesn’t want enough. Obviously I mean whites in Africa and not black Africans. This takes different forms in different people, but it shows up in some form in everybody who stays there any length of time. I also dedicate Mating to my beloved son and daughter-in-law, Jason and Monica, to my mother, and to the memory of my father, and to my lost child, Liza. ![]() My debt to her, in art and in life, grows however much I put against it. “An audaciously clever novel with substance as well as flash.”Įverything I write is for Elsa, but especially this book, since in it her heart, sensibility, and intellect are so signally - if perforce esoterically - celebrated and exploited. “A novel that doesn’t insult the intelligence of either its readers or its characters: a dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously and know they sometimes sound silly … Mating is state-of-the-art artifice.” “Brilliantly written … utterly sui generis !. Rush has alerted us to the transfiguring power of passion.… He deploys the narrative voice with … brio … wit and persuasiveness.” “Bold and ambitious … delightful, provocative.” ![]() Not toward the heart of darkness but toward brilliant illumination.” “Witty, raunchy … prodigiously aspiring … a remarkable book … His protagonist is a memorable female character: a continually shifting prism that revolves from dashing to needy, from witty to morose … wonderfully varied and pungent.” Lawrence … a marvelous novel, one in which a resolutely independent voice claims new imaginative territory … The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.” “The best rendering of erotic politics … since D. ![]()
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