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"Tremendous . a reader-pleaser in every way . The people, places, and times that [Wood] evokes so movingly, so vividly, will haunt me long after I've put the book aside . Such a moving ending-and exactly right."</BR> <p align=right><B>-Phyllis Whitney</B>, <I>New York Times</I> best-selling author</P> Acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood delivers a magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families-one British, one African-and their battle over Kenya's destiny in the twentieth century.</P> In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England.</P> The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with those of the Mathenge tribe, an African family that has lived on the land for years. Grace soon finds a deadly rival in Mama Wachera, an African medicine woman who fights to maintain native traditions against the encroaching whites. After Wachera curses the Trevertons, a series of tragedies threatens to destroy what the once-great family fought to create. But the fates of future generations of these two remarkable families are inextricably bound.</P> A bold and brilliant achievement, <I>Green City in the Sun</I> brims with all the drama, violence, and fierce beauty of the Kenyan landscape.</P>
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Set in Kenya, in 1919, this book is of a British family, the Trevertons, who settle on an estate on the homeland of Kikuyu and the antagonism that develops between them and the tribe's own medicine woman, whose powers they disregard.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you've never seen Out of Africa or read any book about Kenya, this novel will give you a cursory overview of Kenyan history from 1919 to the present. It is easy to follow, its characters are uncomplicated, and it certainly never lacks for plot. Using simple vocabulary and very short sentences, Wood presents the interconnected stories of three generations of two families--the African family of a shamba-living, fig-tree worshipping witch doctor and the very British Treverton family of aristocrats who have come to Kenya, taken over the land, and torn down the sacred fig tree to build a polo field.
The British, as exemplified by Lord Treverton, are arrogant and insensitive in the course of their decades of power, leading the local population to form the guerilla Mau Mau secret society, committing all manner of murder and mayhem indiscriminately against both the British and those Kenyans who reject Mau Mau-style violence. Eventually, as we know from history, the Kenyans win their independence.
The march toward independence is buried within a series of melodramatic plot elements: a witch doctor putting a curse on the Treverton family, a wife steadfastly rejecting her husband's sexual advances from the beginning of her marriage, two mothers pretending for years that their own children do not exist, a lover hidden successfully for months in the garden, two passionate interracial affairs between "good" characters, a long-unsolved double murder, several suicides, secret betrayals, rapes, imprisonments, numerous love affairs both serious and casual, a gay relationship, and even the belief of a contemporary female doctor, who has straight hair and "creamy skin," that she is half Kikuyu. There are also a couple of graphic sex scenes and a series of genital mutilations, not for the faint of heart. Mary Whipple
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A brilliant book, very well written that offers an excellent insight to the life and mentality of kenya today. It has everything, war, love jealousy, agony... Make sure u have plenty of time when u buy it, u won't be able to leave it
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Can't wait for my bedtime read! Barbara Wood brings Kenya alive and by the time you get half way, the characters are like old friends.
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A really good family saga.
I read this book years ago and have never forgotten how good it is. Gave my original copy away and had to buy another! A big book but well worth the read.
Published on 22 Nov 2007 by Loobie Loo
Page Turner!
Really enjoyd this book. Can't stop reading, love all the intrueging family stories and unexpected story lines. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2007 by Mrs. K. Holmes
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