The tale of an Englishman making a life for himself in Senegal

Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. "If I don't offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard," she explained. Clearly I had a lot to learn about life in Africa.

On the cusp of middle age, Simon Fenton leaves Britain in search of adventure and finds Senegal, love, fatherhood, witch doctors—and a piece of land that could make a perfect guest house, if only he knew how to build one. The Casamance is an undiscovered paradise here mystic Africa governs life, people walk to the beat of the djembe, when it rains it pours, and the mangoes are free. But the fact that his name translates to "vampire" and he has had a curse placed on him via the medium of eggs could mean Simon’s new life may not be so easy.

一个英国人在塞内加尔谋生的故事

卡迪掏出一只乳房，以致命的方式向变色龙发射牛奶。"她解释说："如果我不给它牛奶，我们的儿子长大后就会像蜥蜴一样。显然，对于非洲的生活，我有很多东西需要学习。

在中年的边缘，西蒙-芬顿离开英国寻找冒险，并找到了塞内加尔、爱情、父爱、巫医--以及一块可以成为完美客房的土地，只要他知道如何建造。卡萨芒斯是一个未被发现的天堂，在这里，神秘的非洲主宰着生活，人们随着DJEMBE的节拍行走，下雨时就下大雨，芒果是免费的。但是，他的名字被翻译成 "吸血鬼"，而且他被人以鸡蛋为媒介下了诅咒，这意味着西蒙的新生活可能不会那么轻松。