Zocker und Voyeure, Hexen und Sadisten, Huren, fremdartige Schönheiten und schottische Kleinbü T.C. Boyle erzählt die überbordende Geschichte von Mungo Parks, der sich um das Jahr 1800 auf die Suche nach dem Niger machte, und vom Schicksal eines Londoner Trickbetrügers namens Ned Rise. Leonhard Koppelmann schuf ein Hörspiel, das raffiniert die Erzählstränge in Afrika, London und Schottland miteinander verschränkt - voller ironischer Kommentare und schwarzem Humor.
T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.
He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T.C. Boyle.
Eine Gruppe europäischer Entdecker fährt erstmals den Niger herunter um die Mündung zu finden und erlebt auf dem Weg wahnwitzige Geschichten. Klassisch TC Boyle, teilweise komplex geschrieben.