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Excellent read. This man really did his homework. Appreciated that he took time to understand the Muslim issue as well. Granted he writes about Muslims living in a tribe in Africa initially but took pains to get things right. Historical fiction a great way to get a feel for history if you are not one to wade through dry historical accounts. Quotes I loved:If I live long enough to finish this story, it will outlive me. Long after I have returned to the spirits of my ancestors, perhaps it will wait in the London Library. Sometimes I imagine the first reader to come upon my story. Could it be a girl? Perhaps a woman. A man. An Englishman. An African. One of these people will find my story and pass it along. And then, I believe, I will have lived for a reason.Kind of why I do what I do. NSPerhaps Lindo could explain why Christians and Jews kept Muslims as slaves if we all had the same God and if we all celebrated the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt. Some authors just get it so simple and right.We had an expression in my village. 'Beware the clever man who makes wrong look right.'
I learned an immense amount about the slave trade from England, to Africa, to the Americas, and also to Canada from this well written book. The balance between character development and historical reference was brilliant. I came to feel so deeply for Animata throughout this novel. I cried (again) as I finished the final pages and had to part with this beloved character. Books like these make me deeply and wholly saddened by the brutality of our past, but hopeful for morality in the present and future. Well done.
Brilliant. I loved it from the start to the finish.
EPIC!