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MiG-23 Broke my Heart: a War Novel
by
A.K. Dawson (Goodreads Author)
The year is 1988.
Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.
As a conscript in the South African Defence Force, it’s Thomas’s job to watch the hot, sandy border for signs of the mysteri...more
Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.
As a conscript in the South African Defence Force, it’s Thomas’s job to watch the hot, sandy border for signs of the mysteri...more
Kindle Edition, 150 pages
Published
October 26th 2011
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Simply amazing. This book misled the hell out of me.
AK Dawson classifies his book as "...a war novel, a tale of action and adventure, a fictional road trip and – deep in its dark heart – a certain kind of love story." Well yes, yes it is but it is also so much more than that.
Thomas Green is only 18. He has grown up in South Africa in the white section of an upper, middle-class neighborhood. He doesn't consider himself racist but more of a Pacifist until he is conscripted in to the South African...more
AK Dawson classifies his book as "...a war novel, a tale of action and adventure, a fictional road trip and – deep in its dark heart – a certain kind of love story." Well yes, yes it is but it is also so much more than that.
Thomas Green is only 18. He has grown up in South Africa in the white section of an upper, middle-class neighborhood. He doesn't consider himself racist but more of a Pacifist until he is conscripted in to the South African...more
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I’m honestly not sure whether to describe AK Dawson’s MiG-23 Broke My Heart as an easy read or a hard one. On the one hand, I found myself breezing through huge chunks of the novel at a time. On the other, it’s not exactly a pleasant book. There are some flashes of truly brilliant description, but they’re nestled among--and often within--moments of staggering violence. A conscript in the South African Border War, the protagonist, Thomas Green, initially has little to do but keep a rifle pointed...more
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