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The Silent Minaret
Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. The friends of a young student who has gone missing try to reconstruct his life as they search for him, and what emerges is a picture of a man insisting on a common humanity and finding ...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
April 1st 2007
by Jacana Media
(first published April 30th 2006)
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I was sorely disappointed by this book. It started out beautifully and pulled me in right away, but in the end it skimmed over the truly interesting parts (like the relationship between the two women and their two children), and instead the focus was so overly-emotional and historically inaccurate that it almost read like propaganda. I mean, what is the connection between apartheid and 9/11 or apartheid and the war in Iraq? They each carry their own significance and drawing parallels between ...more
I don't know if you can get this one here, I picked it up in South Africa.
This book is (sigh, dreamy look) everything. I have read it so many times, you can tell my copy is much loved. Just read it. WARNING: It will grab hold of your soul and you will never ever forget the emotion conveyed by the text. Words cannot even describe...
This book is (sigh, dreamy look) everything. I have read it so many times, you can tell my copy is much loved. Just read it. WARNING: It will grab hold of your soul and you will never ever forget the emotion conveyed by the text. Words cannot even describe...
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