Masai Dreaming ~ Justin Cartwright

Masai Dreaming ~ Justin Cartwright

Medium soft cover
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Masai Dreaming is a haunting and layered novel by Justin Cartwright, winner of the South African M-Net Literary Award. It follows Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist and screenwriter, who travels to East Africa to research a film about Claudia Cohn-Cassona French Jewish anthropologist who studied the Masai in the 1930s and was later deported to Auschwitz. As Curtiz delves into Claudias life, hes forced to confront his own fractured relationships and the elusive nature of truth.

Tim Curtiz is commissioned to write a screenplay about Claudia Cohn-Casson, a brilliant anthropologist betrayed to the Nazis. His journey to Africa becomes more than researchits a personal reckoning. Haunted by dreams of the Masai and tormented by memories of his wifes infidelity, Curtiz finds himself unraveling both Claudias tragic past and his own emotional dislocation. Through interviews with Claudias former lover and encounters with the remnants of colonial and tribal Africa, he begins to question the very nature of storytelling. Cartwrights novel moves between modern-day Africa and Nazi-occupied France, exploring themes of betrayal, memory, and the moral ambiguity of narrative itself