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...airport, not far from a modern, antiseptic government hospital. On the short trip up the Ogooué River, the visitors pass natives skimming by in brand-new boats powered by Evinrude outboards. Finally they reach Schweitzer's hospital. Set ghostlike amid wild palms and tangled jungle undergrowth, its tin roofs and ramshackle wooden buildings are worthy of Rain or The Heart of Darkness...
...Tin Drum, by Günter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany...
...Tin Drum, Grass...
...sarong costs a worker three months' pay, and one Indonesian airline pilot has complained that he can make ends meet only by smuggling in cameras from Hong Kong. Government-subsidized schoolbooks are too expensive for some students. There are periodic rice shortages, and production of rubber, copra, and tin on expropriated Dutch estates has declined sharply under the management of fumbling government bureaucrats. Students have staged demonstrations with banners screaming: "We are hungry...
...author of The Man with the Golden Arm seems determined to prove that it was written by a man with brass lungs and a tin ear. Who Lost an American? sounds like a bellowing recitative by a carnival barker who stops at nothing but to laugh at his own jokes. It takes Algren to foreign parts like New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American...