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Silent Light,New
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At the start of Mark Jacobs remarkable new novelhis first book in thirteen yearsthirtysevenyearold Smith wins a stash of diamonds in a poker game. The only catch: he has to find them.A Louisiana native, Smith is currently employed on an oil platform off the west coast of Africa, while the diamonds are somewhere in the immense, wartorn Democratic Republic of the Congo. But Smiths grown tired of the platform and he hates the idea of wasting a full house. One last adventure, he tells himself, and then, diamonds or no diamonds, hes heading home to Louisiana.In Kinshasa, Smith meets a young woman named Batrice, who hails from a village on the other side of the country. But this village, she tells Smith, is where his diamonds area thousand miles away as the crow flies, but significantly longer on the patchwork of guerillapatrolled roads that traverse the country. If he helps her get home, shell show him where the stones are.What ensues is a guided tour of hell in which a notsoinnocent American abroad comes face to face with the legacy of European imperialism in the heart of the African continent. Like Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, and V.S. Naipaul before him, Jacobs reveals the limits of the western gaze, inverting the tropes of the whitesavior novel to give us a story about a man who realizes you dont have to travel to another country to get lost, and you dont have to go home to be found.
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