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Out of Darkness, Shining Light (Hardcover, Main)
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 2020 FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: Petina Gappah's epic
journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'engrossing, beautiful
and deeply imaginative.' (Yaa Gyasi) This is the story of the body
of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and
the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500
miles so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his
own country. The wise men of his age say Livingstone blazed into
the darkness of their native land leaving a track of light behind
where white men who followed him could tread in perfect safety. But
in Petina Gappah's radical novel, it is those in the shadows of
history - those who saved a white man's bones; his dark companions;
his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - whose voices are
resurrected with searing intensity. This final, fateful journey
across the African interior is lead by Halima, Livingstone's
sharp-tongued cook, and three of his most devoted servants: Jacob,
Chuma and Susi. Their tale of how his corpse was borne out of
nineteenth-century Africa - carrying the maps that sowed the seeds
of the continent's brutal colonisation - has the power of myth. It
is not only symbolic of slavery's hypocrisy, but a portrait of a
world trembling on the cusp of total change - and a celebration of
human bravery, loyalty and love.
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