Description
About the Author
Norman Lewis's early childhood, recalled in Jackdaw Cake, was spent partly with his Welsh spiritualist parents in Enfield, North London, and partly with his eccentric aunts in Wales. Forgoing a place at university for lack of funds, he used the income from photography to finance travels to Spain, Italy and the Balkans, before being approached by the Colonial Office to spy for them with his camera in Yemen. It was from his service in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War that his masterpiece, Naples '44, emerged. Norman Lewis wrote thirteen novels and thirteen works of non-fiction, but he regarded his life's major achievement to be the reaction to an article written by him entitled Genocide in Brazil, published in the Sunday Times in 1968. This led to a change in the Brazilian law relating to the treatment of Indians, and to the formation of Survival International.
Reviews
This last and posthumous book is authentic Lewis, full of feeling, exact notation, delicious oddities and a love of the natural world. - London Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9781780600086
Author Norman Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Eland Publishing Ltd
Publisher Eland Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 250g