{"product_id":"the-lower-river-9780241957745","title":"The Lower River","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel, about one man''s return to an Africa he no longer recognises, \u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin. The people he remembers are poor, apathetic, hostile. The country labours as if under a great, invisible burden. However, Ellis is determined. This is his escape, a paradise regained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut escape can be a snare, a trap for the unwary . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic, compelling and brilliant return to a terrain no one has ever written better about than Paul Theroux: the tragic stage of modern Africa, AIDS-ravaged and despairing in th\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017705718103,"sku":"9780241957745","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241957745.jpg?v=1750774395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lower-river-9780241957745","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}