Meet Me in Mozambique

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A voice of great gentleness and a humour that lacerates - By: , 25 Nov 2005
A voice of great gentleness & a humour that lacerates. Studied erudition & the simple pleasure of comradeship. A past which stretches & contracts. Archie Markham’s writing displays a wonderful & wonderfully readable complexity which can leave you heartened, sad & happily baffled.
Pewter Stapleton is a man with restless boot heels. From a childhood in the Caribbean he’s been moving ever since, gravitating from one place to the next as a patchwork past emerges. Markham picks up on the threads which run through Pewter’s life & somehow intertwine, snatches of a past time crystalllize & dissolve, refocusing again in a different timeframe.
The sense of distance that defines the hero’s life comes through in the text, there’s a migratory feeling as one memory disperses to make way for another. The effect is moving & sad, but this is no eulogy for a wandering or wasted existence, Markham’s humour & Pewter’s humaneness see to that. There is a defiant optimism in Mozambique, a sense of almost contrary euphoria that delights & saddens. I don’t quite know why I’m drawn to this book, & perhaps that’s why I’m drawn to it. Tindal Street have come up trumps.

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