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...MANGO ON THE MANGO TREE (260 pp.)-David Mathew-Knopf...
Archbishop Mathew's point seems to be that his characters are without love for their fellows because they are without love for God. In his zeal, he also seems to be saying that love can express itself-in Africa, at least-only through Catholicism. As a novel, The Mango on the Mango Tree becomes a highly literate parable loaded with blunt proselytism...
...Come." One Indian newspaper has called Bhave "the Saint Paul of constructive work." Wherever he goes, roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...
Coak, who speaks only a bastard calypso, has predicted mango and artichoke plagues with 94 percent accuracy since he was burned for wizardry...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Oct. 24)--A sunken-eyed zombie, burned for wizardry and dead for 76 years, is our hottest lead to date. He prognosticates hurricanes and mango blights in the thick voodoo country northeast of here...