Joseph Diescho
Auteur de Born of the Sun: A Namibian Novel
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Joseph Diescho
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1955-04-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Namibia
- Lieu de naissance
- Andara, Namibia
- Lieux de résidence
- East London, Eastern Cape
- Études
- Fort Hare University
Columbia University
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Namibia (2)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 29
- Popularité
- #460,290
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
I thought this was a charming novel, even if it were only for the fact that it is hard to find Namibian novels at all, let alone ones that have been translated into a language that I can read. It opened a new world, even if I wasn't completely unfamiliar with it, having studied cultural anthropology in the past. However, a novel gives you quite a different - inside out- view than a textbook ever could give you.
The fact that I was so charmed by this book makes it difficult to judge it in a very critical way. As I normally do... It is not comparable with works by literary masters: it's written in very simple language, there are huge leaps in time that make the development of the main character perhaps a little hard to follow (from a timid village boy to one of the leaders of the liberation movement, just like that). However, it is a novel that deserves to be read, if only to open your eyes for a forgotten country with a sad history.… (plus d'informations)