Memories of book lovers | Sistema Limbico

In the evening, Tom took me into those hills, to a hotel bar where his fellow aid workers and expats hung out. They seemed a lost collection of latter-day Graham Greene characters, floating around the world, two years here, five years there , dispensers of aid while ... 'Donor countries,' he said. 'The IMF, the EU, the US, the World Bank.' He explained that he paid 20 percent on his loans, not because of inflation but because the government had borrowed the money first. ...