THE BROTHERS M (512 pp.)Tom StaceyPantheon ($5.95).
As foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, English-born Author Tom Stacey, 31, knows the depths and shallows of African politics. As a trained anthropologist (The Hostile Sun), he has a strong sense of what it must be like to live in a primitive society, and also the dangers facing the educated African who defies both Europe and his tribal past. It is this last themerather than a sampling of the yeasty brew of independencethat Novelist Stacey has drawn on for this deeply felt and disturbing first novel.
The "brothers" are an oddly matched pair...
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