Three Weeks in December

Three Weeks in December - Paperback

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Three Weeks in December - Paperback

Three Weeks in December - Paperback

by Audrey Schulman
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Book Overview

"Two Americans have life-altering experiences in Africa a century apart in this environmentalist adventure novel" by the author of Theory of Bastards (Kirkus Reviews).

In 1899, Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks. Plagued by fear and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, Jeremy takes increasing solace in the company of his African scout.
In 2000, Max, an American ethnobotanist, travels to Rwanda where she searches for an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she shadows a family of gorillas--the last of their group to survive the local poachers. But their precarious freedom is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close.
Told in alternating perspectives that interweave the two characters and their fates, Audrey Schulman's novel deftly confronts the struggle between progress and preservation, idiosyncrasy and acceptance.
ISBN9781609450649
Author Audrey Schulman
PublisherEuropa Editions
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages349
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Three Weeks in December

Three Weeks in December - Paperback

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By Audrey Schulman

About Audrey Schulman

Audrey Schulman is the author of four previous novels: Three Weeks in December (Europa 2012), Swimming with Jonah, The Cage, and A House Named Brazil. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she runs HEET, a non-profit.

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