Share for friends:

Read The Last Train To Zona Verde (2013)

The Last Train to Zona Verde (2013)

Online Book

Author
Genre
Rating
4.75 of 5 Votes: 3
Your rating
Language
English
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart

The Last Train To Zona Verde (2013) - Plot & Excerpts

It was a Sunday. The dignity and somnolence of a Sunday, gone in most countries, was observed in Windhoek, and that made my arrival simpler. Among families in formal churchgoing clothes — men in suits, women in frilly dresses or long-sleeved robes, all smiling as though newly baptized — I walked toward a hotel a few blocks away. And I saw that rarest of workers in Africa, a street sweeper — two of them, actually — one chucking at the granite gutters with his yard-wide broom, the other scooping with his shovel, succeeding in their labors. The clean streets added a touch of surrealism to this African capital.
Stopping to look and to catch my breath, I became self-conscious in my way of gaping at the city. It had become my habit on this trip, a sudden pondering of a landscape or a particular face — faces can seem topographical too, like lumpy landscapes. More than merely observing, I was studying the features and shadows, trying to seize them somehow, thinking that I might not see them again because I probably would never return.

What do You think about The Last Train To Zona Verde (2013)?

Write Review

(Review will shown on site after approval)

Read books by author Paul Theroux

Read books in category Nonfiction