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Published by Little Brown and Company, 1997, hardcover, 345 pages, condition: as new.

Jilted by a local aristocrat and bereft following the death of her mother, Clara meets and falls in love with a visiting missionary. They marry and she joins him in Africa in an enclave of huts, dust and flies. There, as tribal warfare spills into the camp, Clara begins a heart-wrenching discovery.

This book was fascinating as in insight into early missionaries in what later became Zimbabwe. It contains a lot of anthropological details which I enjoyed, about dress, traditional beliefs, proverbs, food and so on. I believe the author is a historian and so it is authentic. The story arc reminded me a bit of Poisonwood Bible, in that the committed missionary husband is passionate and obsessed with converting the chief, and is seen through his wife's eyes as misguided. The wife goes out to join him naive and hopeful, and is soon disenchanted with bush life, and with the perceived success of the mission. It wasn't wholly negative about missionaries, just slightly so - the only character to come out spotless in the wide spectrum of Venda, Matabele, British missionaries, settlers and soldiers, is the chief, Mponda. On the whole I liked it, and it did raise good questions.
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