3 Novels by Richard Wiley
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Overview: Richard Wiley is the author of eight novels including Bob Stevenson, Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and Ahmed’s Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Tacoma, Washington
Genre: Fiction > Classic
Festival for Three Thousand Maidens
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, Richard Wiley has written an extraordinary novel about the personal, cultural, and political awakening of a young Peace Corps recruit in Korea. Set in the era of Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the U.S., Wiley’s story reverberates with these events.
Indigo
The principal of an international school in Africa, American widower Jerry Neal becomes involved with a group of Nigerian dissidents planning a coup, a relationship that leads to his transformation into a hunted rebel. 10,000 first printing.
Ahmed’s Revenge
The people in Richard Wiley’s fiction live in the dangerous territory where cultures and worlds collide. In Soldiers in Hiding, for which Richard Wiley won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction in 1987, the protagonist was Teddy Maki, a Japanese-American whose jazz band was playing in Tokyo at the moment Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Now, in his new novel, Ahmed’s Revenge, Wiley introduces us to Nora Grant, a young coffee farmer living in Kenya in the 1970s, a woman whose predicament is less obvious than Maki’s but no less dangerous.
Nora has disbelievingly stumbled upon her husband, Julius, engaged in what appears to be ivory smuggling, one of the Europeans’ dirtiest games. Before Nora can confront Julius, he is killed in accidental circumstances that soon look more like murder. Nora investigates her husband’s affairs, coming across a succession of people whose lives intertwine and intersect: her own father, living out his retirement in England in apparent innocence; Mr Smith, who might be a murderer; Mr N’Chele, who might be a smuggler; Miro, the opera singer; Detective Mubia, a policeman of divided loyalties–and Ahmed, a massive African elephant, whose remains are preserved at the National Museum in Nairobi and in whose name revenge must be sought.
Richard Wiley is a craftsman. His eclectic cast of misfits plays out an engaging story in a superbly wrought atmosphere of post- colonial tension and drama.
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