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A Kind of Light

A Kind of Light

by Sheila Mitchell and H. R. F. Keating
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 28/02/2017

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Five years after his death, Keating's A Kind of Light is surfacing as an original audiobook ...

Written in 1987 and recently discovered by his widow, H.R.F. Keating's A Kind of Light is an homage to Joseph Conrad, a writer he greatly admired. It is from that author's Heart of Darkness that the title is taken.

Conrad's African jungle is the setting, and it has two interwoven stories. The first concerns a young Victorian gentlewoman who sets out into the heart of the Dark Continent, accompanied only by native bearers, in search of a plant which she has been told is the cure for the ravaging disease typhoid. She keeps diaries, six of which resurface a century later. Excerpts of these, together with a firsthand narration of her physically hazardous and mentally disturbing journey, give us a glimpse of Africa 100 years ago.

Alongside this, but set in present-day 1987, when Keating wrote the book, a young couple, having learnt of the existence of the diaries and the possibility that a further six were written and were preserved in Africa, determine to make a documentary film following in her footsteps, and they, too, set off into the unknown, hoping to discover the remaining notebooks.

Keating, as usual, manages to underscore these gripping narratives with provocative philosophical arguments on such topics as savagery versus civilisation, innocence versus corruption and atheism versus divinity as well as exploring the moral dilemmas facing the young in the mid-1980s.

ISBN:
9781489379818
9781489379818
Category:
Historical fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
28-02-2017
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
8
Dimensions (mm):
134x146mm
Weight:
0.2kg
H. R. F. Keating

Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.

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