The Consul's Wife

General FictionLarge Print EditionAn understated but deeply felt novel. Publishers WeeklyWith one foot in the modern era and the other imbedded in tribal traditions of the Congo, Hugh Matthews, a young American foreign service officer thrown into a exotic world he desperately wants to understand, finds himself with only two friends: a reckless pilot and the wife of the deputy consul, to whom Hugh is deeply drawn. Here Tyler constructs a moving, tragic love story as well as a tragedy of politics and failed diplomacy in a fragile third world nation.


Genre: Historical