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White Dog Fell From The Sky
Eleanor Morse
Viking
January 2014
On Sale: December 31, 2013
Featuring: Isaac Muthethe; Alice Mendelssohn
354 pages
ISBN: 0143124439
EAN: 9780143124436
Kindle: B008EKMCP4
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Contemporary | Fiction
An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal
for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and
of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic
and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story. In apartheid South Africa in 1976, medical student Isaac
Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a
friend murdered by white members of the South African
Defense Force. He is smuggled into Botswana, where he is
hired as a gardener by a young American woman, Alice
Mendelssohn, who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies to follow
her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes missing and Alice
goes searching for him, what she finds will change her life
and inextricably bind her to this sunburned, beautiful land. Like the African terrain that Alice loves, Morse’s novel is
alternately austere and lush, spare and lyrical. She is a
writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
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