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Title: Shame
Author: Melanie Finn
Narrator: Penelope Rawlins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-12-15
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Most of us have a plan. Somewhere to go if something awful happens. Pilgrim Jones doesn't. She looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight. She alights on the edge of Africa. Over confessions and strong gin, she's lured into a world of mercenaries and philanthropists, delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits. But what about the beating absence, the thing she's done?
Shame is a novel about a world out of time, about magic and chance, Europe and Africa, learning to live and living to learn. It will transport you from diplomatic dinners to a land where fireflies light the sky, and a desolate, magical coastline where anything - anything - might happen.
Shame will change you.
Members Reviews:
SAME BOOK as "The Gloaming!"
I give this book one star because it is the SAME BOOK as "The Gloaming," which I loved. I was disappointed that no description was included on this page, aside from the reviews, which I should have read. I think it is duplicitous on the publisher's part to sell the same book under two different names and covers. Never run across this problem before...
Felt like being in Africa
Unique, Felt like being in Africa. Couldn't put it down
Haunting
Shame is set in Arnau, Switzerland, and Magulu, Tanzania, in contemporary times. Pilgrim Jones, an American woman, feels betrayed. Her husband, Tom Lankester, divorced her to marry Elise. Then Pilgrim has an âincidentâ â a tragic incident that brings guilt, hatred from others, and shame. The only thing to do is to escape the place where it happened. She travels to Tanzania.
From the capital of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, she meets Mama Gloria, and travels by bus to a remote village. But Pilgrim decides to stay. It is Magulu, only 20 miles from the Kenyan border. Here she stays at the Goodnight Bar and Inn, owned by Gladness. Pilgrim befriends Dorothea, the townâs doctor, who loves the townâs policeman, PC Kessy. But the past catches up with Pilgrim. Detective Chief Inspector Paul Strebel from Arnau is looking for her. When he arrives in Dar es Salaam, he tells people that Pilgrim is in danger. Is she? In danger from whom? The other man looking for her? Or does Tanzania heal all wounds?
Written in the first person, by Pilgrim Jones, for the majority of the novel, it shifts towards the end. Back and forth in time and place is disorientating, but that is the intent of the author. What happens is disturbing. This is not just an account of what happens to Pilgrim, but what happens to others â others that also experience loss and despair, and revenge.
Beautiful writing, suspenseful
The first half of the book is narrated by Pilgrim, an American lady whose husband works for the International Red Cross. They are living in Switzerland when her marriage comes unexpectedly to an end. Whilst still reeling from this, she is involved in a local tragedy. To escape the nasty repercussions of this, she escapes to the Africa hoping to lose herself in the remoteness. She feels she is never safeâfrom humans nor from spirits.
She befriends a doctor who feels frustrated that she has no medicines, a policeman who works alone in a lawless society, an alcoholic with his own need for redemption, and a grieving lesbian who has come to save AIDS orphans.
Her concise, descriptive writing paints a vivid picture of people, their activities and the surroundings.
