Ah but Your Land Is Beautiful4 reviews Alan Paton Scribner, 1996 Paton at his best. + Wonderful Book! + Confusing But Truthful Theme "Ah But Your Land is Beautiful" is far and away one of the best books written about the old South Africa, and in many ways still applies very much so to today's "Rainbow Nation." Taking the reader into all of the minds in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid, this gripping multi-viewpoint ...             Links4 reviews Nuruddin Farah Riverhead Hardcover, 2004 The Shifting Terrain of a Civil War + Interesting Perspective on Somalia + Journey into a Dantean Hell . + "We should have the vulture as our national symbol."             The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)1416 reviews Barbara Kingsolver Harper Perennial, 1999 poisonwood bible versus my missionary kid experience + A Retrospective + I loved it. + Fabulous Read + How could I have missed this one for so long?             The Persistence of Memory: A Novel7 reviews Tony Eprile W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 "What will become of us all?" + Memory and atrocity and the narrative of history South Africa from 1968 - 2000 is revealed in all its cultural variety and internal stresses through the life story of Paul Sweetbread, an overweight Jewish boy who is an outsider to everyone. Neither a Boer nor an Englishman, he is also not really a Jew, since his family has never been observant, ...             Brazzaville Beach27 reviews William Boyd Harper Perennial, 1995 Only a few DNA strands short of a perfect match + Engrossing + A Perfect Novel + A great book + Out of Africa             The English Patient290 reviews Michael Ondaatje Vintage, 1993 Hauntingly Beautiful + Gorgeous prose weaves these lives together + Poetically beautiful + Some desert concepts related in this novel are not too far from home + Fragments, shards, and drifts of sand             Snakepit3 reviews Moses Isegawa Knopf, 2004 The Decadence and Violence of Amin's Regime This superb novel of the final days of Idi Amin's despotic regime in Uganda captures the inhumanity of absolute power in horrifying detail. Bat Katanga, a graduate of Cambridge, returns to his homeland and a job at the Ministry of Power and Communication to seek his fortune. The man who hires ...             Ah but Your Land Is Beautiful4 reviews Alan Paton Scribner, 1996 Paton at his best. + Wonderful Book! + Confusing But Truthful Theme "Ah But Your Land is Beautiful" is far and away one of the best books written about the old South Africa, and in many ways still applies very much so to today's "Rainbow Nation." Taking the reader into all of the minds in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid, this gripping multi-viewpoint ...             The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)1416 reviews Barbara Kingsolver Harper Perennial, 1999 poisonwood bible versus my missionary kid experience + A Retrospective + I loved it. + Fabulous Read + How could I have missed this one for so long?             Brazzaville Beach27 reviews William Boyd Harper Perennial, 1995 Only a few DNA strands short of a perfect match + Engrossing + A Perfect Novel + A great book + Out of Africa             The English Patient290 reviews Michael Ondaatje Vintage, 1993 Hauntingly Beautiful + Gorgeous prose weaves these lives together + Poetically beautiful + Some desert concepts related in this novel are not too far from home + Fragments, shards, and drifts of sand             Snakepit3 reviews Moses Isegawa Knopf, 2004 The Decadence and Violence of Amin's Regime This superb novel of the final days of Idi Amin's despotic regime in Uganda captures the inhumanity of absolute power in horrifying detail. Bat Katanga, a graduate of Cambridge, returns to his homeland and a job at the Ministry of Power and Communication to seek his fortune. The man who hires ...             The Persistence of Memory: A Novel7 reviews Tony Eprile W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 "What will become of us all?" + Memory and atrocity and the narrative of history South Africa from 1968 - 2000 is revealed in all its cultural variety and internal stresses through the life story of Paul Sweetbread, an overweight Jewish boy who is an outsider to everyone. Neither a Boer nor an Englishman, he is also not really a Jew, since his family has never been observant, ...             Links4 reviews Nuruddin Farah Riverhead Hardcover, 2004 The Shifting Terrain of a Civil War + Interesting Perspective on Somalia + Journey into a Dantean Hell . + "We should have the vulture as our national symbol."