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2000s: Heartbreaking and difficult to read at times but it hits at the painful truth of how some people – women and victims of sex attacks are still treated in Africa
The Garden Of Burning Sand
What you need to know before your trail
On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. She is so shocked that she becomes mute and cannot explain what happened.
Zoe Fleming is the human rights lawyer who takes up her case – she has her own reasons for wanting to help and teams up with Joseph Kabuta of the Zambian police to try and find the man responsible.
But they find that every door they open closing in their face – someone doesn’t want them to find out what happened. Was this a random act or something a lot more sinister?
Travel Guide
This is a story of Africa and its children who sometimes can go through such heartbreak such as child abuse. this is a story about those who try to help and come in under the guise of humanitarian aid workers an the struggle for the two peoples to meet and understand one another.
For this is ultimately the story of Zambia in two shades; Firstly, of this beautiful country of extremes and people with heart, and secondly of a country trying to claw itself away from an AID/HIV epidemic, corrupt and ineffectual justice system and those who suffer most- the orphaned children.
A story of contrasts – of countryside and the city and one strikingly diverse landscape in between.
Booktrailer Review
Clare: @thebooktrailer
A very very difficult book to review and one I found very hard to read. It was very emotional and hard hitting and a bit too raw and real for a comfortable read. But then this could be a true story as it is so representative of how attack victims are treated in some communities and how issues of race, religion and disability are handled.
The investigation into the subsequent attack and the trial are also hard hitting and to have a human rights lawyer as the main character was an interesting angle. Zoe tells us the story and when she teams up Joseph Zabuta she soon finds that the investigation and trial are to be a lot more difficult and complicated than they first thought. The criminals at large are a lot more corrupt and powerful not to mention capable than they could ever have imagined.
Very hard hitting issues, very raw and emotional and something which will stay with you long after you have read it. Ultimately however this is a story about people struggling to do right in a sometimes horrific world.
People who feel trapped and at times don’t know what to do or where to turn –
“You’re like a tiger in a cage,” he said, “Pacing doesn’t change the fence.”
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