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Soft Sell
A Curtain of Ignorance. By Felix Greene. (Cape, 35s.) China in Crisis. By Sven Lindqvist. Translated by Sylvia Clayton. (Faber, 25s.) Sow: years ago I was sent, with the......
The Sun Rising
In the brass light of morning, fire along the . grass, The tide far out, turning, the wind at peace. The vivid sky stood open, a scene with nothing wrong: Sun was sun, stones......
Dreams Of Power
The River-Watcher is a novel of violence and immense subtlety: it deals with kidnapping, revenge and death by drowning—though its over- riding theme is the analysis of the......