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Oil on Water

A Novel

By Helon Habila

Others | 9780393339642

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Two journalists, a young upstart and a disillusioned veteran, are sent to find the missing wife of a British oil executive in the environmentally devastated ...

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  • Oil On Water, By Helon Habila

    Rufus is a keen cub reporter cutting his teeth at a newspaper in Port Harcourt, when he is sent on an assignment to find and interview the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. His endeavour becomes that of an everyman detective on a life-threate ... (read full critics)

    independent published on Fri, 30 Sep 2011

  • SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH BOOKS » Blog Archive » Helon Habila–OIL ON WATER

    “Write only the truth. Tell them about the flares you see at night, and the oil on the water. And the soldiers forcing us to escalate the violence every day. Tell them how we are hounded daily in our own land. Where do they want us to go, tell me, wh ... (read full critics)

    marywhipplereviews published on Thu, 14 Jul 2011

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Others 256 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393339645
  • ISBN-13: 9780393339642
  • Publisher: W W Norton and Co Inc
  • Pub date: May 16, 2011
  • Also available as: eBook
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