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One of the best family sagas I've read in years! Beginning right after WWI when an aristocratic family moved to Kenya, up until the 1970's. Twists and turns, drama, violence, tragedies, the beauty of Africa, this one has it all. A book you want to keep picking up and reading and don't want to end.
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I read this book because it referred to Nairobi, but while I wouldn't rate it well as a work of fiction, as melodrama it was a hoot. The author may jumble just about every aspect of Kenyan history in some way, but there is no variety of love forlorn that doesn't appear here, gay, straight, inter-racial, elderly, etc. Mix in an accidental self-poisoning by ether, a Mau Mau who is half Masaai and decides to donate his own mixed race baby for an oathing ceremony and it's quite a wild ride, but grea
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