The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Book description
A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country.
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When a friend told me about this book, I was immediately taken by the title. Who could resist? The novel reads like a dream; it took me a little while to get situated in time and space but in a deliciously languid way.
I loved the way the author considers the intimate ways that bureaucracy and authoritarianism work themselves into one person’s daily life and the creaky after-effects of British bureaucracy across the former Empire. I appreciated that nothing is idealized here; no one comes out looking pretty.
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