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TANGA, a novel of forbidden love set in a rain forest village in the heart of Africa


Eric Madeen served as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in Gabon, Africa after earning his B.A. from the University of Arizona. Later he earned his M.F.A. from San Diego State University. His writing has appeared in several venues including an anthology of expatriate fiction set in Japan (The Broken Bridge, Stone Bridge Press), Kyoto Journal, The East, Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo Journal, Wingspan, and more. He is currently an associate professor of English at Tokyo City University. You can contact him at .


Other writings

  1. »Onbashira Groove

  2. »The City by Cyclo

  3. »In Conrad’s Wake

  4. »Exploring Elephant Island

  5. »It’s Called Luang Prabang

  6. »Writing in Progress

  7. »Doctor Robopet

  8. »The Spirit of Okinawa

  9. »Going Wild at Sepilok

  10. »A Sentosa Moment

  11. »Where the Spiritual Meets the Physical



 
 

TANGA is a novel of forbidden love set in a rain forest village in the heart of Africa. It seamlessly merges adventure, romance, and the psycho-thriller while deconstructing Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, with David undergoing the Kurtz syndrome — to a lesser degree, of course. Like Kurtz, David enters the heart of “blackest” Africa as a white man, and as a Peace Corps volunteer of genuine idealism, he finds himself both “corrupted by” and also empathizing with the Africans he becomes involved with, and tempted to “go native.” As David writes in a letter home, “In all my reading about Africa, the black and white together was bleak, with going native connoting going insane.”





























You can learn more about Tanga by clicking on the cover. It’s available at iUniverse and Amazon.

 

First novel: Tanga

TANGA, a novel of forbidden love set in a rain forest village in the heart of Africa