The Leopard's Wife

The Leopard's Wife
Author Paul Pickering
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
2010
Media type Print (Hardback), (Paperback) and E-book
Pages 352
ISBN 978-1-84737-827-9

The Leopard's Wife is the fifth novel by British writer Paul Pickering. It was published by Simon & Schuster in the United States and United Kingdom in 2010. The novel was called ‘brilliant’ by The Times, the newspaper for which Pickering writes,[1] and "lackluster" by "Publishers Weekly".;[2]

Like Pickering's previous novels, the chief concern of the novel is moral ambivalence both on the margins of order and in an increasingly post American world. Pickering travelled down the Congo River in the last stages of the war from Kisangani to Kinshasa to research the novel but had been planning the story partially based in a public school for 15 years.[3] The novel shows the link between such an education and what has happened to Africa today.

Notes

  1. Kate Saunders, The Times, 30 July 2010 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/189957/Review-The-Leopard-s-Wife-Paul-Pickering
  2. Publishers Weekly, 02/22/2010http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4391-6853-0
  3. Paul Pickering, "Journey to the Heart of the Congo", The Times, 18 October 2008
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