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Un Arco Iris En La Noche (2008)

by Dominique Lapierre(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8408080954 (ISBN13: 9788408080954)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Planeta

review 1: A thought provoking account of the birthpangs of the South African Nation starting from the Great Trek in Bunghers along Natal , the Anglo-Boer War in which Gandhi participated as a nurse in 1918 Soweto , the Founding of the ANC and the imprisonment in Robben Island subsequent release of Mandiba.Not exactly in the class of V.S naipaul and other historical novels but serves as a steamed up guide ready reckoner romp to the Rainbow Nation My only argument with this love fest with south africa is that it runs rough shod and attempts to romanticize an essentially troubled and trauma filled history as if South AfricaS freedom was 20th century answer to a Grimms and hansen fairytale.A charge made earlier about the authors earlier books Freedom at Midnight and o Jerus... moreulam as well.But now as Mandiba lays in a hospital perhaps breathing his last. a welcome reminder of the miracle of South Africa.and above all to the man Mandiba
review 2: The prose is overwrought and melodramatic, and the narrative is shallow and episodic. But I know more about South Africa than I did when I started. It's a quick read, 240 pages of large type with nothing you have to think too hard about.Biggest complaints: - 1651-1948 is covered in just 70 pages- much of the latter two thirds are taken up with the stories of a white anti-apartheid social worker and the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant- there is no real analytical consideration of *why* anything described in the book happenedTo sum up, this book tells a historical narrative but cannot fairly be called history. less

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