Book description
A Season in Sinji recreates life on a wartime RAF flying boat station in an African backwater. The dialogue evokes a wide range of characters, and in the bizarre cricket match which acts as a catharsis to the novel's mounting passions, human dramas and irony are portrayed.
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Having read Carr's A Month in the Country and How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup and enjoyed both, I was expecting to also like A Season in Sinji but in fact I more than liked it. I loved it.
A Month in the Country is about the redemptive powers of art and features a protagonist who learns to be more accepting and progressive in his social politics: the mood is sombre, pastoral, muted. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is about how the big dreams…
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