SPROG: Engelsk
2007.
On a farm at the foot of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya Gil Freeman's parents and his sister were slaughtered by the Mau Mau in February 1953.
He was seventeen years old. From a volunteer in the government security forces responding to brutality of the Mau Mau offensive, to professional hunter, to game warden, Gil remains in Kenya for the next decade.
In due course he moves to the Congo and then Rhodesia. Following his mixed fortunes, Between the Sunlight and the Thunder is a major novel of the fast-changing Africa that covers 25 years of colonial history when those winds wreaked havoc on people and wildlife alike.
In a blend of fact and fiction, of real-life, disguised and invented characters in three countries, this historical novel, whilst harrowing, is also insightful and hauntingly beautifully written by a person whose knowledge and love of Africa bleeds through every page. Woven into the story is the eternal triangle, the consequences of which evolve against the background of one of the most explosive periods of African history.
506 sider, storformat, indb.
Udgivet af Rowland Ward
2007.
On a farm at the foot of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya Gil Freeman's parents and his sister were slaughtered by the Mau Mau in February 1953.
He was seventeen years old. From a volunteer in the government security forces responding to brutality of the Mau Mau offensive, to professional hunter, to game warden, Gil remains in Kenya for the next decade.
In due course he moves to the Congo and then Rhodesia. Following his mixed fortunes, Between the Sunlight and the Thunder is a major novel of the fast-changing Africa that covers 25 years of colonial history when those winds wreaked havoc on people and wildlife alike.
In a blend of fact and fiction, of real-life, disguised and invented characters in three countries, this historical novel, whilst harrowing, is also insightful and hauntingly beautifully written by a person whose knowledge and love of Africa bleeds through every page. Woven into the story is the eternal triangle, the consequences of which evolve against the background of one of the most explosive periods of African history.
506 sider, storformat, indb.
Udgivet af Rowland Ward
