The Darling

Author(s): Russell Banks

Literary Fiction

Hannah Musgrave has left her family in Liberia during the civil war - now she must return and confront her ghosts
Hannah Musgrave - enigmatic, tough, middle aged - has lived many lives. A member of the terrorist group, The Weathermen in the 60s, she was once a hardened radical, both sexually and politically.Fleeing from the FBI, she settles in Liberia, where she marries a politician and becomes a mother and a wife. But Hannah remains removed from her life in Africa, even from her husband and three sons. It is only the chimpanzees in the sanctuary which she develops that truly touch her.Liberia, in the meantime, is a country waiting to explode. As a bloody war erupts Hannah is on the run again. This time though, the past won't disappear.Reminiscent of the novels of Greene and Conrad, The Darling is big, bold, utterly compelling storytelling.


Product Information

Banks is one of America's most respected writers: a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.For fans of The Poisonwood Bible and the work of William BoydAuthor tour and widespread media coverage

General Fields

  • : 9780747575580
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.59
  • : October 2004
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Russell Banks
  • : Paperback
  • : Export ed
  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 400