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Title: The Cry of the Go-Away Bird
Author: Andrea Eames
Narrator: Clare Corbett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-01-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean and ironed, there is always tea in the silver teapot, gin and tonics are served on the veranda, and, in theory at least, black and white live in harmony. However this dream-world of her childhood cannot last. As Elise gets older, her eyes are opened to the complexities of adult existence, both through the changes wrought in her family by the arrival of her step-father Steve, and through her growing understanding of the tensions in Zimbabwean society. As Mugabes presidency turns sour, the privileged world of the white farmers begins to crumble into anarchy.
©2011 Andrea Eames (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Members Reviews:
I can still hear them
Sometimes when I read a story, it sticks to my bones like a good stew. This was such a story. The vibrant descriptions and beautiful characters will stay with me for a long time.
... can't even begin to imagine what it must be like, to pack a suitcase with what you most ...
I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like, to pack a suitcase with what you most treasure and leave behind the only life that you have ever known. This book gripped me emotionally. I have read many books on the fate of Zimbabwe and its people, but this is the first one that was set after the bush war. I thought Andrea Eames did a good job, so sad to see people who love Africa, because of the awful circumstances they find themselves in have to go and live on another continent. I enjoyed it.
You really feel as if you're there
This book is worth reading just to get an understanding of what it was like in Zimbabwe for white farmers during the early stages of the Mugabe regime. It's very suspenseful and clever.
As a New Zealander, I well remember a large number of white Zimbabweans migrating here in the 1990s, although at the time I had no idea what they'd been through (I was about 15 at the time). It turns out the author was one of those migrants (albeit a child at the time) and she now lives in my town.
This book has really helped me understand why those people "with the strange accents" (!) joined our community, and what they had goone through before they arrived on our shores.
A MUST READ!
A MUST READ! Such a touching book. I loved it! Andrea has a great talent for creating an image in the reader's head and making you think you are actually experiencing what she wrote. I have already bought her other book, The White Shadow, and can't wait to read it.
Fortunately they were out of the country when the worst ...
My children can definitely relate to the early parts of the story. Fortunately they were out of the country when the worst of the problems occurred.
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Title: The Cry of the Go-Away Bird
Author: Andrea Eames
Narrator: Clare Corbett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-01-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean and ironed, there is always tea in the silver teapot, gin and tonics are served on the veranda, and, in theory at least, black and white live in harmony. However this dream-world of her childhood cannot last. As Elise gets older, her eyes are opened to the complexities of adult existence, both through the changes wrought in her family by the arrival of her step-father Steve, and through her growing understanding of the tensions in Zimbabwean society. As Mugabes presidency turns sour, the privileged world of the white farmers begins to crumble into anarchy.
©2011 Andrea Eames (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Members Reviews:
I can still hear them
Sometimes when I read a story, it sticks to my bones like a good stew. This was such a story. The vibrant descriptions and beautiful characters will stay with me for a long time.
... can't even begin to imagine what it must be like, to pack a suitcase with what you most ...
I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like, to pack a suitcase with what you most treasure and leave behind the only life that you have ever known. This book gripped me emotionally. I have read many books on the fate of Zimbabwe and its people, but this is the first one that was set after the bush war. I thought Andrea Eames did a good job, so sad to see people who love Africa, because of the awful circumstances they find themselves in have to go and live on another continent. I enjoyed it.
You really feel as if you're there
This book is worth reading just to get an understanding of what it was like in Zimbabwe for white farmers during the early stages of the Mugabe regime. It's very suspenseful and clever.
As a New Zealander, I well remember a large number of white Zimbabweans migrating here in the 1990s, although at the time I had no idea what they'd been through (I was about 15 at the time). It turns out the author was one of those migrants (albeit a child at the time) and she now lives in my town.
This book has really helped me understand why those people "with the strange accents" (!) joined our community, and what they had goone through before they arrived on our shores.
A MUST READ!
A MUST READ! Such a touching book. I loved it! Andrea has a great talent for creating an image in the reader's head and making you think you are actually experiencing what she wrote. I have already bought her other book, The White Shadow, and can't wait to read it.
Fortunately they were out of the country when the worst ...
My children can definitely relate to the early parts of the story. Fortunately they were out of the country when the worst of the problems occurred.