This book contains passages, all of them slightly altered, from the following works:
Charles Allen, Tales from the Dark Continent, part of the trilogy, Plain Tales from the British Empire, Little, Brown, 1998.
Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, trans. David McDuff, Penguin, 2005.
Günter Grass, The Tin Drum, trans. Ralph Manheim, Vintage, 2004.
George Perec, Life A User’s Manual, trans. David Bellos, Harvill, 1996.
Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles, trans. Celina Wieniewska, Penguin, 1992.
Joan Sharwood-Smith Diary of a Colonial Wife: An African Experience, Radcliffe Press, 1992.
Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘From a Railway Carriage’.
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The publisher apologizes for any errors or omissions and would be grateful to be notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future editions of this book.