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Then She Was Born
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- 3,49 €
Descrizione dell’editore
2017 Award Winning B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree and Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence for Outstanding Independent Literature.
Then She Was Born is more than a novel. It’s an international human rights awareness campaign supported by eleven Nobel Peace Prize laureates, the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis. Based on an inconceivable reality for many in the world today, Then She Was Born combines the drama and redemption of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner with the spirituality of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.
A child is born and the joy of her parents turns to horror. The child is different, in a way that will bring bad luck to their superstitious community. The tradition should be for her to be abandoned, but Nkamba, the grandmother, is allowed to care for her.
Naming her Adimu, Nkamba raises her as her own. Adimu is constantly marginalized and shunned by the community, although her spirit remains undiminished and full of faith. But when she encounters the wealthy British mine owner Charles Fielding and his wife Sarah, it is the beginning of something which will test them all.
As Charles Fielding’s fortunes wane, he turns in desperation to a witch doctor whose suggestion leaves him horrified. But as events begin to spiral out of control he succumbs to the suggestions and a group of men are sent on a terrible mission. The final acts, of one man driven by greed and another by power, will have a devastating effect on many lives.
Cristiano Gentili’s glittering prose and vivid imagery will have you captivated from the first page.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gentili's novel successfully pleads the case for improved treatment of African albinos, despite some flawed character construction. From the moment that Adimu, an albino girl, is born, she is in danger from those around her; in her island community of Ukerewe in Tanzania, an albino is not a person but a zeru zeru, "phantom" in Swahili. Her paternal grandmother, Nkamba, rescues her from being killed upon birth and raises her. Few others in Adimu's community show her any kindness her parents disown her, other children taunt her when they aren't ignoring her, and the local shaman, Zuberi, wants to make charms from her body. Charles Fielding, a wealthy white mine owner, wants nothing to do with Adimu, but his wife, Sarah, dreams of adopting her. When Nkamba dies, Adimu is treated like a servant by the rest of her family and sought by kidnappers who would sell her body to men like Zuberi. While Gentili creates a fully realized character in Adimu, others are less believable Charles's behavior is very inconsistent, while Zuberi is simply a caricature of an evil and ambitious "witch doctor." Still, despite the inconsistent storytelling, the novel is a detailed portrait of its community and is an intriguing look at a lesser-known aspect of Tanzanian life. (BookLife)