A Time of Bliss eBook Martha Mphahlele
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Memories of growing up in a sleepy village in Mbabane, the capital city of the Kingdom of Swaziland. Amongst a people whose lives remain steeped in age old customs and beliefs. In the early 60's, when nations around the world were embattled by civil wars, social and political revolutions, student uprisings and wars against other nations, the tiny kingdom which lies sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique had remained an oasis of peace and tranquility, its inhabitants oblivious of the carnage taking place across the country's borders and beyond. Swaziland became a safe haven for refugees fleeing slaughter in their own troubled homelands...
A Time of Bliss eBook Martha Mphahlele
i loved the quirky youthful humor that betrays the true magic in the author's deceptively simple and measured narrative style. what many might not be aware of is that the heroine of the novel, is part of what the western world call the baby boomer generation;, but in Africa this generation has a much more remarkable tale than simply one of post war reconstruction - a tale far more layered and fundamental: one i will leave up to them to write about except to say that this short novel gives an insightful and romantic sojourn into that period of monumental social upheaval; it's success for me is in how, like a leaf in a storm, it resists the gale force winds of it's time period and the reader truly feels the warmth of a small African village buffeted by tradition and encroaching modernity.LOOSE THOUGHTS, Vol 1.- "the today siren"
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A Time of Bliss eBook Martha Mphahlele Reviews
i loved the quirky youthful humor that betrays the true magic in the author's deceptively simple and measured narrative style. what many might not be aware of is that the heroine of the novel, is part of what the western world call the baby boomer generation;, but in Africa this generation has a much more remarkable tale than simply one of post war reconstruction - a tale far more layered and fundamental one i will leave up to them to write about except to say that this short novel gives an insightful and romantic sojourn into that period of monumental social upheaval; it's success for me is in how, like a leaf in a storm, it resists the gale force winds of it's time period and the reader truly feels the warmth of a small African village buffeted by tradition and encroaching modernity.
LOOSE THOUGHTS, Vol 1.- "the today siren"
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