My town was set ablaze on 7 December, after all four thousand inhabitants had been evacuated, except for me. I was born here, had live here all my life and couldn't imagine living anywhere else ... There is always one, at least one, who doesn't follow the crowd, he doesn't even need to know why, and here in Suomussalmi it was me.
Fourteen years after independence, the enduring friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland.
In the 60's he smuggled dope from MoroccoIn the 70's he brought coke from Peru and AmsterdamIn the 80's he got banged up for 16 years - You'll like him
'More delinquent than Nobokov, more gung-ho than Hemingway, more verbose than Kerouac, and more self-obsessed than Kafka, the writer Kleinboer introduces himself as probably the weirdest activist ever to rise up - in an absolutely literal sense - against the bigoted laws of the apartheid regime.' Koos Kombuis
