A review by chichi27
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

1.0

In a way, this was the perfect book to read after Nelson Mandela's autobiography. It's one of the most ridiculous cases of 'othering' Africa I've come across. A rich old man goes to Africa to find himself, only to get tangled up in one huge, extended metaphor with a lion. And while I didn't care for the majority of the book, the last ten pages push it over the top, where he brings a lion cub home with him on a plane, and decides to take in a Persian orphan. What the hell, Saul Bellow? Can we posthumously stip him of his Nobel Prize?