He Sleeps

Bertrand, a young African-American anthropologist, has ostensibly come to Senegal to do field research. In truth, he left his home in Denver to gain a fresh perspective on his troubled marriage. Struggling to fit in with his new Senegalese family — Alaine, his wife Kene, and their young daughter — Bertrand finds himself, for the first time in his life, haunted by surreal and increasingly violent dreams. His waking hours are no less sinister; unwittingly, it seems, Bertrand has become caught in the tension — sexual and otherwise — building between the married couple.

• Author
• Reginald McKnight

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 224

• Publisher
• Picador

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-42104-5

• EAN
• 9780312421045

• Genres
• africa, fiction

• Release date
• 2002