Afrika

Craig did an excellent job of weaving together the details and the mystery of of the main characters' lineage and the complexities of South Africa's brutal racist apartheid system. The story told through the eyes of a Canadian born girl,Kim, and an African boy, Themba, who has experienced his own lost, pulls in the reader, so that we too experience the various nuances that impact all who are touched by the evil that apartheid condoned. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it!

This is a fine book about one young woman's struggle with her mother, relocation, emerging maturity, and own racial prejudices after learning that her background is not what she thought. It is unfortunate that a strong swear word was included near the end of the book. I lent my copy to a South African friend who thoroughly enjoyed it too.

I am reading this with my son who has to read it for 7th grade. While he does not like it I do! And I am really having fun talking to him about it.

This was an interesting breath taking novel. Sometimes I cried about this book other times I laughed. All and all I love this book.

I had to read this book for a school project. I could hardly get through it. the only reason i bothered finishing it was because i had to for school. It was extremely boring with almost no plot line. for the school project i had to find the climax. i couldn't find it because the whole book was equaly boring. hope this helps. :)

An historical novel such as "Afrika" is a great way to provide a lot of facts in a very entertaining and special way. Highly recommended.

Die Schauplätze sind sehr bildlich beschrieben und man hat beim Lesen das Gefühl wirklich in die Welt von Südafrika eintauchen zu können. Die Beschreibung der Wahrheitskommission ist sehr berührend wenn auch sehr "zensiert".Auch die Auflösung hat mir sehr gut gefallen, da sie realistisch ist und gut zum Buch passt.