Winner of the BABRA award for Best Novel of the Year.
“Marcella D‘Souza is a wonderful invention, a latter day Candide. Vivid, precise ad fast-paced …brilliantly prescient.”
—Suzanne Ruta, New York Times Book Review
Read an excerpt from A Girl from Zanzibar.
Hugh Fuller, a high flying aid expert, lands dazed in the West African state of Kangaba. His life of perpetual travel in the unreal atmosphere of international finance has separated him from his family and left him confused in time and place. [more]
Read an excerpt from Written on a Stranger's Map.
The narrator, John Meddows, is the Deputy Director of Rural Planning in an unnamed African republic. The novel spans only one day, but that day encompasses a long mental journey. [more]
Read an excerpt from Hotizontal Hotel.
Love and Fatigue in America is the my first novel to be set mainly in America. Its subject is negotiating a new life while suffering the physical embarrassments and mental confusions of ME Disease (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), and over the years discovering something about Americans and myself.
It's an autobiographical novel. That is, it is a true story in which full truth is mediated by a damaged memory, my ability to recognize truth, the requirements of art, and a wish to protect the privacy of others and my own legal liability. But, the purpose is truth.
More about ME Disease: ME Association of UK, and US CFIDS, and Center for Disease Control
Here's the beginning of Love and Fatigue in America:
