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Publication
Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 1995
Description
Here the author traces the intertwined destinies of two families over three generations. Lord Valentine Treverton is representative of the upper-class Britishers who founded white settlements in Kenya: hardworking, determined to wrest a coffee crop from East Africa's fertile soil, he is also arrogantly ignorant of the ancient traditions of the natives who call their home Kikuyuland. When Treverton cuts down a sacred fig tree on his new plantation, medicine woman Mama Wachera puts a curse (thahu) on the Treverton family until "the land is returned to the children of Mumbi."
Media reviews
Le Figaro
Une histoire vive et violente, fondée sur une très étonnante documentation médicale.
Le journal du Dimanche
Un gros roman dépaysant, érudit, passionnant
User reviews
LibraryThing member Luli81
The story of a female doctor in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. A great adventure, well written, well reserached and successfully fullfilled.
LibraryThing member kaitanya64
I read this book because it referred to Nairobi, but while I wouldn't rate it well as a work of fiction, as melodrama it was a hoot. The author may jumble just about every aspect of Kenyan history in some way, but there is no variety of love forlorn that doesn't appear here, gay, straight,
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inter-racial, elderly, etc. Mix in an accidental self-poisoning by ether, a Mau Mau who is half Masaai and decides to donate his own mixed race baby for an oathing ceremony and it's quite a wild ride, but great literature it aint. Read it if you have time to kill. Show Less
Awards
Prix Ado-Lisant (1998)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1988-04
ISBN
3596108977 / 9783596108978