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They arc close fnends, their lives criss-crossing in university common-rooms, offices, and above all night-dubs. We meet them first as we meet any group of strangers, knowing nothing of them but what they say, how they look, and the sound of their voices as they gossip and laugh; but gradually we come to know them inwardly. \\Ve learn their pasts, their beliefs, their spiritual crises, their loves. This is a novel teeming with incident in which the characters run the gamut of human experience. It is full of comedy and observation, ranging from incidents which arc ncar-farcical to moving evocations of the deepest forces in these people's lives. Its sophistication is never cold, its wit never shrill. The interpreters are interpreted with brilliance.  \nWole Soyinka  \nThe Interpreters  \nAFRICANA PUBLISHING CORPORATION  \nNEW YORK  \nPublished in the United States of America 1972 by Africana Publishing Corporation  \n101 Fifth Avenue  \nNew York, N.Y.1ooo3  \nCopyright © 1965 by Wole Soyinka All rights reserved  \nLibrary of Con􀁋ress Catalog Card Number: 72 76610 ISBN 0 8419 0121 X  \nPrinted in Great Britain  \nA glossary of dialect words will be found on page 253  \nPART ONE  \n1  \n'Metal on concrete jars my drink lobes'. This was Sagoe, grumbling as he stuck fingers in his ears against the mad screech of iron tables. Then his neck was nearly snapped as Dehinwa leapt up and Sagoe's head dangled in the void where her lap had been. Bandele's arms never ceased to surprise. At half-span they embraced table and chairs, pushed them deep into the main wall as dancers dodged long chameleon tongues of the cloudburst and the wind leapt at them, visibly malevolent. In a moment only the band was left.  \nThe 'plop'continued some time before its meaning came clear to Egbo and he looked up at the leaking roof in disgust, then threw his beer into the rain muttering.  \n'I don't need his pity. Someone tell God not to weep in my beer.'  \nSagoe continued to rub his neck. 'You are a born hang woman, leaping up like that. It could snap a gorilla's neck.'  \n'I had to think of my hair. '  \n'Her hair! My neck to her hair. Why don't you use wigs like all fashionable women?'  \n'I don't like wigs.'  \n'If you go around wearing your own hair people will think you are bald.'  \nSeparate only by the thigh-high bamboo wall giving the socalled 'party privacy'-try our Club Cambana Cubicles etc etc-Egbo watched the rising pool in which his polluted beer dis-  \nsolved in froth. A last straggle of white clung stubbornly to the bamboo, rising with the water; the rest thinned fast under direct whipping off the roof.  \n'Well, I made a choice. I can't complain.'Bandele looked up at him.  \n'Oh I was only having a chat with me and this talkative puddle.'  \nTwo paddles clove the still water of the creek, and the canoe trailed behind it a silent groove, between gnarled tears of mangrove; it was dead air, and they came to a spot where an old rusted cannon showed above the water. It built a faded photo of the past with rotting canoe hulks along the bank, but the link was spurious. The paddlers slowed down and held the boat against the cannon. Egbo put his hand in the water and dropped his eyes down the brackish stillness, down the dark depths to its bed of mud. He looked reposed, wholly withdrawn.  \n'Perhaps you've guessed. My parents drowned at this spot. 'The canoe began to move off.  \n'Your Chinese Sages would say that is a lie, of course. How can I say my parents died at this spot when it isn't the same water here today as was here last year, or even yesterday. Or a moment ago when I spoke. Anyway, my grandfather is no philosopher. 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