It gives me pleasure to hinder American tourists occasionally.-- Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley.
A Bambara proverb goes thus: "go to the village where you don't have a house, but take your roof with you."-- from the new Introduction by Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award. This edition is published by Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, with a new preface by the author.
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