Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart (Paperback)

Paperback. AN IMPORTANT NEW NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKSIn late 1994, The New York Times sends a group of American journalists and Rwandan guides to a small village in Northern Rwanda to cover the atrocities that have killed nearly a million during the spring and summer. Some know each other already; others become acquainted as the assignment proceeds.They all need to get along, but the more theyre together, the more their expectations of each other change, not least during a trek that takes them across the border to the gorilla forests of Uganda and the volcanoes of Zaire.Maggie Bawden: Deft plotting that offsets culturally different definitions of violence and sexual conflict. A novel about identity crisis in New York of the 1980s at a time of increasingly fluid gender relationships Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.