Item Condition: Used; Very Good 'Some of the liveliest contemporary writing
Guardian
Dr Petworth is not, it had better be admitted, a
person of any great interest at all. Heis white and
male, forty and married, bourgeois and British-all
items to anyone's contemporary discredit. He is a
man to whom life has been kind, and he has paid the
price for it. He teaches; that is what he does. Heis
also a practised cultural traveller, a man who has had
diarrhoea for the British Council in almost all parts
of the civilized or part-civilized world. And that is
why he is here now, in the summer of 1981, in the
capital city of a small dark nation known in all the
history books as the bloody battlefield of central
eastern Europe, travelling culturally. And preparing
-though he doesn't know it - to lose more than
his luggage.
'Superb entertainment with an underpinning of
reflection and observation that makes you want
instantly to read the book again'
Sunday Telegraph
"Brilliant'
Financial Times