Brilliant and terrifying Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast.
So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continents remote interior and is selling sundrieslittle more than this and that, reallyto the natives..
He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Brilliant and terrifying Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast