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A Rainbow In The Night: The Tumultuous Birth Of South Africa (2009)

by Dominique Lapierre(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0306818477 (ISBN13: 9780306818479)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Da Capo Press

review 1: I don't know how to explain this book in a word. To be honest, I didn't know what to feel when I was reading this book. I can't believe this really happened in our history. This just seemed so surreal to me and I didn't want to believe this. Moreover, there were people that wanted to change this world to become better. There was Nelson Mandela. He didn't give up to find freedom for the people in South Africa. Even if he was put in jail, he stayed positive. I looked at myself, and I realised that I was complaining about things that didn't matter at all compare to what he had faced while living his life. What is it that I am doing for humanity? What can I do for the better future? : these are what I questioned myself.
review 2: Hmmmm . . . what can I write about ... morethis book? I had such high hopes for this book with its beautiful cover and the lyrical nature of the author's name, however, I should have known better when the jacket flap talked about Mr. Lapierre writing the book without references. What could that possibly mean I wonder. It means he researched and wrote a version of the birth of South Africa with no reference to other historians or writers with one notable and welcome exception, Nelson Mandela's autobiography. The result is a seemingly water-down romanticized (don't read that as without violence because there is violence in the tale) version of the history. I wish I had read an actual history before I read this book. less

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