Stereotypically African orange skies and Acacia trees are hiding rich and varied stories. Don’t judge these books by their covers.
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him...
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Acacia Tree cover published by Johathan Cape, (1974)
An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink
The year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas's final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master's vineyard in order to attend her own beloved mother's funeral. And when he refuses to do so,...
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Acacia Tree cover published by Sourcebooks Landmark, (February 1, 2008)
A Far-Off Place by Laurens van der Post
The story of a long, perilous journey undertaken by four survivors of a massacre: a teenage boy of European descent, a young white girl, and two Bushmen...
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Acacia Tree cover published by Mariner Books, (November 8, 1978)
The Constant Gardener by John LeCarre
The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.
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Acacia Tree cover published by Scribner, (January 1, 2005)
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