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Andrei Makine
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Publisher | Sceptre | ||
ISBN | 978-034093678 | ||
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Wendy
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Synopsis
As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bears witness to mankind at its pitiless worst. Yet he continues to believe in a better world and in the redeeming power of love - even though he cannot be with the woman he loves, who rescued him from thugs one snowy night on the streets of Moscow. Spanning forty years of Africa's past as a battleground between East and West, this powerful novel explores the heights and depths of human nature as it tells a profoundly affecting story of sacrifice and idealism.
Review
A powerful novel set in Africa about a professional revolutionary called Elias Elmedia who firmly believes in the bond of human love.The author writes in a beautiful haunting style,that does not detract from the atrocities
he recounts.I enjoyed this book very much becouse it is a medition about ideaology and humanity yet it raises
so many questions about the fulity of war and the people it is supposed to protect.
A thought provoking book with a very good plot that will remain in my memory for a long time.
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