Three weeks in December / Audrey Schulman.
By: Schulman, Audrey
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BookPublisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2012Description: 353 pages : maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781609450649 (pbk.); 1609450647 (pbk.).Subject(s): Railroad engineers -- Fiction | Ethnobotanists -- Fiction | Animals -- Africa -- Fiction | Human ecology -- Fiction | Asperger's syndrome -- Fiction | Gay men -- Fiction | Africa -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: This novel interweaves the perspectives of Jeremy, an engineer who leaves small-town Maine in 1899 to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa, and finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions killing his men in nightly attacks; and Max, an American ethnobotanist who travels to Rwanda in 2000 in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical, but finds herself shadowing a family of gorillas whose survival is threatened by a violent rebel group from nearby Congo.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Afria. Plagued by fear, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions who are killing his men in nightly attacks on their camp. In 2000 Max, an American ethnobotanist, is stationed in Rwanda where she shadows a family of gorillas, but their solidarity is threatened by a violent rebel group from Congo that draws ever nearer. Told in alternating perspectives, the fates of these two characters entwine to culminate in a shocking resonant conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-353).
This novel interweaves the perspectives of Jeremy, an engineer who leaves small-town Maine in 1899 to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa, and finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions killing his men in nightly attacks; and Max, an American ethnobotanist who travels to Rwanda in 2000 in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical, but finds herself shadowing a family of gorillas whose survival is threatened by a violent rebel group from nearby Congo.
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