- Published: 15 June 2014
- ISBN: 9780099525172
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
Blue Dahlia, Black Gold
A Journey Into Angola
- Published: 15 June 2014
- ISBN: 9780099525172
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $29.99
A curious tenderloin-abroad-tale that is both diligent and gripping in its portrait of a country torn apart.
Scotsman
Step forward Daniel Metcalfe, whose account of his three-month exploration of [Angola] doesn't shirk from describing the appalling poverty but manages to reach [an] optimistic conclusion.
Best Books for Summer 2013, Financial Times
An invigorating, eye-opening and fascinating study
Financial Times
Metcalfe explore[s] Angola by road to get under the skin of a nation in which corruption and nepotism are rife... Along the way, [he] cleverly weaves in Angola's colonial history, including Portugal's shocking slave-trading past, civil war and rapid rise of the nouveau riche... Angola's extraordinary cocktail of corruption, oil wealth, destitution and post-colonial blues adds an altogether grittier dimension.
The Times
This gritty book gives an in-depth account of Angola... and captures the corruption of a country with a multimillionaire elite and many dirt poor.
The Times