{"product_id":"the-viceroy-of-ouidah","title":"The Viceroy of Ouidah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chatwin, Bruce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 19-01-1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099769613\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nIn 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah and the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, mercurial king of Dahomey is fraught with danger and threatens his dream.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nA masterpiece which everybody should read...It deserves to become a classic -- Auberon Waugh\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNo lunacy too weird, no irony too oblique, heart too tender, mischief too black, to dodge the sharp angle of his eye. He slips from the hilarious to the macabre, he celebrates the comedy and plumbs the tragedy of Francisco's life - and of Africa - in prose that grabs you with its precision ―\u003cbr\u003e\nObserver\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOutstanding, finely written ―\u003cbr\u003e\nIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is hard to know how posterity will regard this remarkable writer, but his terse, honed language was built to last -- Colin Thubron ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMagnificent. The beautiful, succinct prose is so incredibly visual, vibrant and visceral -- Bernardine Evaristo ―\u003cbr\u003e\nIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nBruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked for the\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times, before announcing his next departure in a telegram: 'Gone to Patagonia for six months.' This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Patagonia, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. Two of his books have been made into feature films:\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Viceroy of Ouidah (retitled\u003cbr\u003e\nCobra Verde), directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieve's\u003cbr\u003e\nOn the Black Hill. On publication\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Songlines went straight to Number 1 in the\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine months.\u003cbr\u003e\nOn the Black Hill won the Whitbread First Novel Award while his novel\u003cbr\u003e\nUtz was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in January 1989, aged forty-eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099769613\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108290072880,"sku":"Trans_9780099769613","price":525.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/71jMmJDthiL.jpg?v=1756809796","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-viceroy-of-ouidah","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}