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Title: The feel of life in Africa
Review: Like all of Alexander McCall Smith's books in this series, "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" captures the "feel" of life in Africa. So much of the printed material that Westerners come in contact with about countries in Africa has a negative or impersonal focus. The "No. 1 Ladie's Detective Agency" series gets beneath the politics and the news stories about "incidents" and poverty and disease to give a sense of the beguiling rhythm and charm and fullness of the daily lives of the ordinary people who make up much of Africa's population. McCall Smith captures all of that through stories that are fun to read and memorable in simple ways. His characters are universally recognizeable and at the same time, quintessentially African. He's a great storyteller.Sherry Norman SybesmaAuthor of "Two Weeks in a Land Rover, On Safari in Tanzania"
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