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Jungle Lovers
Set in post-colonial Malawi, ''Jungle Lovers'' is the fifth novel by American author Paul Theroux, first published in June 1971 by Houghton Mifflin (US) and The Bodley Head (UK). The author himself worked in Malawi from 1963 to 1965 with the Peace Corps and the book itself was banned for many years in that country as revealed by Theroux in his book ''Dark Star Safari''.〔''Dark Star Safari'' by Paul Theroux, page 329, Penguin edition publ. 2002, ISBN 978-0-14-028111-8〕
==Inspiration==
In 1968 Theroux got a job teaching Jacobean literature at the University of Singapore. One of the conditions placed on him was that he neither write nor publish anything about Singapore while he was there. He complied and instead wrote about Malawi, albeit keeping his writing secret from his employers. He contracted dengue fever and only able to work in the evenings and at weekends it took him over two years to write. The author reflects on the novel in an introduction to a German edition of the novel (published by an insurance company for its employees) - the two main characters, an insurance salesman and a revolutionary being the two opposing sides of his own personality. He regarded his work as a teacher in the country being protection for his pupils and yet he was deported from the country in 1965 charged with 'covert revolutionary activities'. The novel has an underlying feeling of affection and skepticism he writes, 'a novel of futility and failed hopes'.〔''Sunrise with Seamonsters'' by Paul Theroux publ. 1985 by Hamish Hamilton pages 328-330 & 364 ISBN 0-241-11543-4〕
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