Acts of Faith
by:
Philip Caputo (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780641884894 (0641884893)
Publish date: May 3rd 2005
Publisher: Random House Inc
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Contemporary,
African Literature
“Do you suppose war to be here what wars are elsewhere?”… “Do you suppose that it is an event, with a discrete beginning that will proceed to a discrete middle und so weiter on to a discrete end? No! It is a condition of life, like drought. There is war in Sudan because there is war.”“Like Vietnam?”...
This is a sweeping masterwork in which Africa is the central character. The characters include a mixed race, UN bureaucrat, a ladies man, who falls in love with the much older, white, wealthy, colonial woman, an American entrepreneur, a daredevil pilot who seeks to earn his fortune and transport sup...
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