The Second Round
by Lenrie Peters
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In Lenrie Peters' debut novel, The Second Round, a young physician decides to settle down in Freetown at the turn of Sierra Leone's independence. After years of studying in England, a young Dr Kawa decides to return to his childhood home. Optimistic for his future and that of the country's, Kawa is eager to carve out a new life for himself in an independent nation. But when he falls unexpectedly in love with his neighbour's wife, Kawa's hope for a simple life comes crashing down... The show more Second Round is a compelling story of the unimaginable change wrought by British colonialism, from altered cultures and values to the everyday disillusionment its victims faced. show lessTags
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Educated at the Prince of Wales School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and at Cambridge University, England, where he studied medicine, Lenrie Peters was born at Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia, where he now lives and practices medicine after having practiced for several years in Great Britain. A highly versatile and energetic man, Peters first show more established himself in modern African letters as a poet, with two poems published in several leading journals and anthologies and two poetry collections, Satellites (1967) and Katchikali (1971), before turning to the novel with The Second Round (1965). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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