Books like The Weather In Africa/Three Novellas

Gellhorn writes in a clear and very straightforward style - perhaps due to her background as a reporter. Nonetheless, you can feel her capacity to play, expriment with, and transform narrative structures, syntax, etc. - this being most felt in the book in "By the sea".She also shows without becoming heavily descriptive multiple social and psychological traits in her characters. For example, she accurately portrays racism, I find, without it being "explained". What I mean is that her portrait of racism - to take only one of the elements - only appears as "part of the story", or "a reality of the time", without it being done in any visibly voluntary, or "preachy", for that matter, manner. She portrays it, and nothing more, and only by that portrait, do we see, and know how it was. Her stories are also rich of multiple images. In the first novella, "On the mountain", we may end up asking questions in regards to morals, expectations, how our ideals work out, what we might perceive without knowing "the whole story". The third and longest novella, "In the highlands", in some aspects, resounded in me as an allegory for communism, and in it's whole, felt like a very political novella. Nonetheless, it may lead us to consider class questions on top of other things. The second novella, "By the sea", is in ways more straight forward, yet as I said, the most virtuoso in style and form. Overall, this is a good book, and not only would I recommend it, but I would enjoy discussing it with others.