Edited by Cedric Watts, Nostromo is a superb evocation of exotic scenery and of a rootless mixed-race society peopled by characters ranging from the intellectual cynic Martin Decoud to 'Fussy Joe' Mitchell of the Merchant Service, from liberal idealists to fanatical clerics. At its heart is the intense moral drama of the Gold silver-mining Concession, of dictatorship and revolutionary violence, of corrosive materialism and of voracious 'progress'.
