Helpful Score: 2
What a wonderful book, with love, fear, tenderness, cruelty, and the complicated race relations before South Africa came to its senses! I am glad that a local library had it. Everything about South Africa in the book rings true, unlike some other books dealing with people of cultures alien to European/American.
There is a bit of mystery in the book, too, and some descriptions of the wild life and nature that make you ache to have lived there. The story line is fairly simple, but I had to keep reading every spare minute until I finished the book, and now I can say that in spite of the tragedy it deals with, I feel good to have read it. I wish it could have gone on longer.
There is a bit of mystery in the book, too, and some descriptions of the wild life and nature that make you ache to have lived there. The story line is fairly simple, but I had to keep reading every spare minute until I finished the book, and now I can say that in spite of the tragedy it deals with, I feel good to have read it. I wish it could have gone on longer.
