Beyond the Book
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- The first novella in this collection, "Monkey Hill", has a definitive resonance with Theroux's own life. During his time in Uganda, where he was a visiting scholar at the Makerere University in Kampala, a violent mob attacked the car his pregnant wife was traveling in. The incident was enough to put Theroux off Africa; he and his family left the continent, where he had spent much of the 1960s, for Singapore shortly after his son was born. He barely...
