Until the Comrades Came - Paperback

by Wonder Guchu (Author)

Darkly funny, intimate and unsettling, Until the Comrades Came is told in the raw, unguarded voice of an ageing president who helped liberate his country but now fears losing power and becoming ordinary. Written as a first-person confession, the novel moves back and forth between his sleepless present and memories of war, love, betrayal, comradeship and decades of rule, allowing his jokes, boasts, prejudices and contradictions to reveal truths he does not always intend to tell. As the past closes in and his comrades turn against him, he confronts what became of the freedom they fought for-and whether surviving everything was, in the end, his greatest