A Season in Sinji
by J. L. Carr
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This novel develops against the background of a cricket match, in West Africa during the Second World War.Tags
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Not what I normally read but since it was related to Africa I relented and was glad that I did. An easy read with a moral and the punchline on the very last page, which in this edition at least meant turning over to half a page so no peeping. His entry in Wikipedia is very interesting.
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- Tom Flanders; Nigel Turton; Peter Wakerly
- Epigraph
- '...For he had that the game itself, if it is found in its natural bearings, is only the agreeable wicket-gate to a landscape of human joys and sorrows, and is greatest where it fades away most imperceptibly into their wider ... (show all)horizons.'
Edmund Blunden Cricket Country - Dedication
- For George and many another known and unknown to me, who rolled, made teas, watched and wrote the minutes
- First words
- I particularly remember one evening at Blackfen.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then sobbing on and on until darkness fell, bringing the rain.
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- Engel, Matthew; Smith, Martin Seymour; Trevor, William
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