The Snake Tree
A Fiction, Roman, Thriller book. The author of The Snake Tree, Uwe Timm, is a distinguished...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 281 pages
- ISBN: 9780811211017 / 811211010
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The long steady implosion of a modern man whose personal issues fail to trump natural selection. We chop down the rain forest to make paper to wipe our asses and wonder why the natives think we're ignorant. The author of The Snake Tree, Uwe Timm, is a distinguished figure in Germany and at least one of his books, The Invention of Curried Sausage, has been widely read abroad. This one hasnt, and I first read it after finding the English edition remaindered for 1.00 in a London bookshop a year or two after it was published in 1988. I liked... Good story about an German engineer landing in Paraguay (although setting remains hinted at rather than spelled out) to supervise the building of a factory. It was a quieter, subtler read than I expected, but there were quite a few good ideas throughout.It says things about the neo-colonial overtaking of big projects abroad by western...