Last Orders at Harrods (The Last Orders at Harrods Trilogy), by Michael Holman
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Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her. Well-meant but inept efforts to foil the lawyers by Edward Furniver, a former fund manager who runs Kibera's co-operative bank and who seeks Charity's hand in marriage, bring Harrods International Bar to the brink of disaster, and Charity close to despair. In the nick of time an accidental riot, triggered by the visit to the slum of World Bank President Hardwick Hardwicke, coupled with some quick thinking by Titus Ntoto, the 14-year-old leader of Kibera's toughest gang, the Mboya Boys United Football Club, help Charity - and Harrods - to triumph in the end.
Last Orders at Harrods (The Last Orders at Harrods Trilogy), by Michael Holman- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 10 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Review ** 'This wickedly satirical novel is also a serious critique of Africa's troubled state―GUARDIAN** 'Jolly good fun―DAILY MAIL** 'A highly entertaining account of how people make the best of living in sub-Saharan Africa―Alexander McCall Smith, THE HERALD Books of the Year** 'Some devastatingly hilarious moments ... a satire that should be required bedtime reading at Gleneagles―SCOTSMAN
About the Author Michael Holman grew up in Zimbabwe and was educated in Africa and England. After university he was forced to flee Zimbabwe for Zambia, where he lived for many years. He was Africa Editor of the FINANCIAL TIMES from 1984-2002, and is now a writer and journalist based in London.
From AudioFile African drumbeats leave you in no doubt of the setting. THIS Harrods is a bar-restaurant in a mythical East-African country; THAT Harrods threatens to sue over the name. Owner Charity is determined that her business will survive. What follows is a fictional stew of the continent's ongoing problems--disease, corruption, violence--treated somewhat tongue in cheek. Jerome Pride gets the satiric tone just right as he mines the treasure trove of characters--officious visiting Brits, resident Japanese, local government leaders, and juvenile gang members. Early on, Charity's father explains, in an infectious lilt, that he got the name "Harrods" from a discarded shopping bag because Brit employers couldn't pronounce local monikers. Narrator Jerome Pride has no trouble, though. An edgy but delightful listen. J.B.G. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A satire, and life in Africa By Wolf Roder Holman certainly knows Africa and knows it well. He understands the constant to-ing and fro-ing of the self-important international aid and NGO fraternity, the fancy hotels they stay in and the world-important conferences on which much foreign aid money is spent. Holman also knows the life in the African urban townships, which westerners regard as slums. Life is difficult for all, so is the survival of children in these slums, but most of all for the AIDS orphans.You will smile and laugh out loud as the widowed owner of Harrod's Bar and Nightspot, built from three steel shipping containers bests the representatives of Harrods Department Store in London, and makes monkeys of their lawyers. I recommend this book for its satire, and good description of African life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Not Evelyn Waugh, but worth a read for Africa fans By O. Corlett This is a tale about the failure of post-colonial Africa, set in a country that feels very like Kenya and a city that feels very like Nairobi. The author clearly has strong feelings about his subject, and a very canny knowledge of how politics works in this setting. His portrait of the fictional President Josiah Nduka is particularly eye-opening, even a little chilling, and turns on its head the usual Developed-World image of a typical greedy, rather dim-witted, bumbling African politician. Similarly, he describes a world of journalists and international aid workers quite at odds with the usual impression left on those of us who watch this world vaguely and from afar. These people know what they're doing. They know they live in a corrupt world (don't we all?). The result is a very dysfunctional system -- but a compromise that is better than nothing... maybe.As a work of fiction and a satire, it's not the most compelling thing, nor the funniest. The point of view shifts among too many characters for the novel to have a central focus, and the storyline is lacking in real suspense or surprise. The author is obviously too nice a man to make a first-class satirist (which requires a generous portion of cruelty and heartlessness), and the blurb on the back cover comparing him to Evelyn Waugh rather overstates the case.Still, it has its moments. There are too few books on this subject, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the knotty problems of African development.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Satire about Africa Audio cd 8 cds unabridged By Barbara Lane Anyone interested in International Aid will see the funny side to this satire to what happens to the money that gets sent in and who oftens pockets a lot of it. How the newspaper reports the meetings and how the reports are so twisted to protect everyone involved. (Or the reporter could end up in jail)International Aid is a very serious thing and very necessary but so often it doesn't fully end up where it should. This story is told with tongue in cheek humour.Part of the story is about how the children survive in the slums and how they try and earn a small living just to buy food.Interesting Story.
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