![]() He is a gambler, a poker king driven to spend his money as fast as he wins it. Joe Egan is always on the run, taking rooms in anonymous motels with easy escape routes and always on the look-out for a strange blonde who follows him across America. ![]() The cynic might catch a whiff of tendentiousness in McCall Smith's fulsome praise of old African ways and the "traditionally built" Precious Ramotswe, but there is much pleasure to be gained from reading a very straightforward narrative written with wit and exuberance.Ĭhance and travel - two all-American motifs - are bound together blackly in Behm's second novel. Whether it's a case of a disappeared American, Mr Matekoni's troubles with his apprentice car mechanics, a scheming maid, or adopting two orphaned children from the Kalahari, everything finally comes to a happy end. ![]() Desai writes delicately of family unhappiness, and in Uma and Arun she creates two marvellous portraits of powerless children trapped by family expectations.īotswana is indeed the land of milk and honey in this second helping of tales from Mme Ramotswe's No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Uma - slow and bespectacled - is doomed to service and spinsterhood, while Arun is fated to carry the family's academic hopes to America only Aruna escapes to Bombay with a husband.
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