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Andrea
Jul 23, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: africa
I wavered between three and four stars for this book. The theme and characters were intriguing, but the narrative style was uneven. Especially at the end of the book, Zeleza seemed to be trying to sum everything up as quickly as possible and totally destroyed the structure and pace of the narrative. Some characters seemed to change to radically within the story without enough narrative illustration of how the change happened. But the story of survival and disillusionment under a corrupt regime k ...more
Anna Ruth FL
Mar 07, 2023 marked it as to-read