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Un Arcobaleno Nella Notte (2009)

by Dominique Lapierre(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8842815241 (ISBN13: 9788842815242)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Mondadori

review 1: Non è un romanzo, come credevo quando l’ho acquistato, ma non sono rimasta delusa: il libro racconta la storia del Sudafrica dal ‘600, quando arrivarono i coloni olandesi, ai giorni nostri, con la fine dell’apartheid. Tutti abbiamo vissuto da lontano questa tragedia, ma personalmente ne sapevo molto poco: le testimonianze terribili raccolte da Lapierre aprono gli occhi sulla crudeltà a cui può arrivare l’uomo quando si crede superiore ai suoi simili, con l'approvazione di Dio, per giunta!
review 2: I wanted to rank this book higher, and there were chapters of the book that were intense and engaging. After reading "Freedom at Midnight", I thought Mr. Lapierre would focus on the most important players in the freedom struggle. While Helen Lieberman is... more no doubt full of virtue, truly admirable and an amazing human being, I though the focus on her and the heart transplant surgeon was quite misplaced - a critical race theorist might be disturbed that these admirable white acts were being juxtaposed against some of the horrors committed by the apartheid regime- as if they counteracted one another. It was Mr. Lapierre's quoting Ms. Lieberman, and her descriptions of the South Africans she committed to helping, that most turned me off of the book. There was no silver lining to the era of apartheid, even if many Afrikaners acted admirably. I will likely still read "Paris is Burning" because I think the author is generally very strong historical storytelling. less

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