Ms Sandra Heaney was sitting in the Acropole Hotel, having failed to leave the country. Not Greece - she was 1500 miles from the shores of the Aegean in a dusty, impoverished tip of a city. The Acropole is a Greek family business in Khartoum. The proprietors and the picture on the hotel stationery are the only connections with Athens, both of them tenuous.

LRB 7 February 1991 | PDF Download