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Title: To Read Another's Thoughts
Review: This book is a fascinating adventure into the thoughts of a very interesting African man as he visits New York. Bernard Dadié demonstrates that he is an educated man and astute observer of the world from page one. His observations, sometimes comical and sometimes dark, but always candid reveal Dadié's commitment to honesty and fair dealing. His narrative style is not unlike stream-of-consciousness lists and he takes it a step further by pulling the reader beyond the list into the experience of thought, the act of seeing, the process of judging and evaluating a novel situation. There is a certain poetry and energy in this book that Jo Patterson translates beautifully into English. Reading this book is as close as a reader can get to seeing America through the eyes of a foreign dignitary and first-time tourist.
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