Content tagged with "africa"
The Covenant
There are “epic” novels, and then there’s this. It’s the history of South Africa, starting in 14,000 BC and ending in 1978. There are 14 chapters, and each chapter handles a different time period. We start about 10,000 years back with cave dwellers wandering the southern part of the continent,…
Cutting for Stone
Absolutely stunning novel. I had heard of the book for years. My mother was born in Ethiopia in the 1940s , and several people had told me that the story in the novel resembled my mother’s experience there as a child. The book was purchased for me by an Ethiopian friend. The story starts with an…
