Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction Book

	Introduction
1	Colonial Encounters
	The Magistrate, from Waiting for the Barbarians	3
	The Coming of the Christ-Child	13
	The Sacrificial Egg	23
	from The Matriarch	29
	The Woman at the Store	39
	The Drover's Wife	51
	A Boer Wedding, from The Story of an African Farm	61
	A Matter of Taste	73
	The Gold Watch	79
	A Letter from Home	89
	The Charlottetown Banquet	99
	A Drink in the Passage	109
2	Postcolonial Encounters
	"Do You Love Me?"	121
	The Testimony of Kihaahu wa Gatheeca, from Devil on the Cross	133
	The Perfume Sea	153
	Chloe of the Dancing Bears, from Beachmasters	175
	An Experience of India	189
	A Horse and Two Goats	209
	The Hills	225
	from The Famished Road	231
	Ranna's Story, from Cracking India	241
	Prelude: An Inheritance, from A Way in the World	253
3	Immigrant Encounters
	Swimming Lessons	263
	Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs	283
	Buried Lives	299
	The Ministry's Visiting Day, from In the Ditch	319
	Joebell and America	327
	My Son the Fanatic	341
	The Angel Azraeel, from The Satanic Verses	353
4	Personal Encounters
	Down at the Dump	363
	The Sun in Winter	391
	Scarlet Ibis	399
	Pigeons at Daybreak	415
	The Triumph of Poetry	425
	Some Are Born to Sweet Delight	443