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The Viceroy of Ouidah (Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin (Author)

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"Dazzles and mystifies, with its lush anger, its impacted memory, its gorgeous desolation."

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In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.

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Chatwin's novel tells the story of Francisco Manoel de Silva, an adventurer and slave trader who travels from Brazil to West Africa to make his fortune. He becomes the Viceroy of Ouidah, and controls the slave trade in Dahomey. Eventually, however, the corruption and horror of the life he is leading drive him mad. The story continues from de Silva's empire in the late 18th century to the present day, ending in the Benin military dictatorship of the 1970s, as his descendents cope with the effects of post-colonialism.

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