Word: theroux
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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FONG AND THE INDIANS by Paul Theroux. 199 pages. Houghfon Mifflin...
...morning-line odds are 99-1 against a young American writing a novel about contemporary Africa that is neither artistically pretentious nor piously angry, but just funny. Paul Theroux, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer now teaching English at Makerere University in Uganda, beats the odds. He has produced a satire out of very unlikely material: a Chinese grocer struggling for survival in a mythical East African country...