North of South: An African Journey

352 pp. "Travel narrative in the classic tradition of Graham Greene, North of South is brilliant, comic, controversial, a scathing and intimate documentary on Africa and its people today. As he travels though Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, novelist Shiva Naipaul discovers the exotic desolation and romance, the bitter tensions and failed dreams of a fractured continent in search of its identity. His is social commentary at its best."