Title: Snares without End
Author: Olympe Bhely-Quenum
Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom
Year: 1982
Country: Benin
230 pages
This edition has a long, explanatory forward that includes multiple spoilers. Read it after reading the novel.
The first half of the novel flows nicely and is both coherent and somewhat existential. The latter portions are more disjointed, make less sense, and seem sloppier rather than suddenly artfully shifted to a different genre. As a whole, it reads as if the author set aside the manuscript for some time, then picked it back up and finished it without much reference to the style or tone of the first section. I found this problematic and uneven.
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