my take: This is a brilliant book. Written in simple prose, with the cadence of the King James Bible, it’s a heartbreaking and staggering work of genius. Written in 1948, it’s set in apartheid South Africa. The tale of two men and their sons and how their lives intersect. I was a bit behind on book club reading, so I listened to the first part of the book on cd … always nice for the foreign language pronunciations (Afrikaans in this case) and to get into a book, but due to the structure of the book, it was better to read it in hard copy. Part one introduces one father; part two, the other father with language & description echoing the first. It also helped to read my mother’s copy from her teaching of AP English … lots underlined and starred and circled.

my source: Book Chicks classic pick

my recommend: This is one of those you’ve got to have on your life reading list, good discussion at Book Chicks

my rating: quiet, stately, prophetic, profound