- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks (30 Nov 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0435905600
- ISBN-13: 978-0435905606
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 751,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Traces a journey that is more than lines on a map. The reader travels into a present-day Africa beset with contradictions and contrasts, enduring the ancient scourges of famine and war, into the struggling mind of a man trying to come to terms with his life.
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haunting strange beautiful terrible eternal desert fable
8 May 2003
Format:Paperback
I didn't really understand this book, but that made it more interesting. It is definately beautifully written, and had some haunting scenes, like the aid worker with the baby, the Harem, the scence with the father, the rich girl, the time he realized he was in love with Nina, and of course the ending. I also like how the story is told as if it isn't an important story- its just about a desperate and lonely man lost (at first figuratively, later literally) in the desert.
I also like how this book makes you feel like you live in Sudan just from reading it. There are no explanations for the Sudan, its just the way it is there- the characters are who they are, the angelic and the not-so angelic seem more like minor ants crawling over the bigger picture of the eternal struggle for life in the desert.
The main character seems to be a mirror to his country. He is just as broken and wounded and dried up inside as the Sudan. He is fighting a civil war with himself, too. He wants to understand his life by living somewhere that is desolate and sparse, and also because his father is from there. But unlike a desert prophet or the old man looking for water at the beginning of the book, he doesn't gain a shred of enlightenment or even find something worth looking for (she goes back to South America). He comes up a bit empty-handed you might say, but you might learn more from him and his experience than the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho who takes a desert journey/ spiritual journey as well. Well, If you go looking for something in the desert, go with friends not strangers, bring a compass and I hope what you look for is not a rainmaker.
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