Title: Beautiful African voice
Product review: DeSoto's writing brings Africa alive ... both in landscape and in the human relationships that defined apartheid. The loss in this book is tremendous and continues to break your heart right up until the end. DeSoto's strength is in his descriptions of the land and in his characters. In the framework of South African apartheid, he describes the impact of both nature and nurture on how we develop our personal relationships in the world and the price we pay when we go against all we believe is true. The back drop of the story is the landscape of a disappearing Africa; the contours of the land are loved and revered and hated, at times, by the characters. DeSoto does an excellent job of describing the different views of the land - depending on which side of the apartheid line that you live.A truly beautiful debut. I hope that DeSoto has many more books in him! I rarely give out five stars to any book but I think Mr. DeSoto's next one may deserve it.
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