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`A profound, moving look at the way love transcends and transforms'
-- Metro, Tina Jackson
`Heartfelt and moving'
-- Herald
`Lara Santoro has a passion for Africa and an unsentimental eye... [Mercy] confirms Santoro as a powerful new talent.' -- Financial Times, Martin Hoyle
Synopsis
This is a compelling debut novel about an unlikely friendship between two women - a troubled war-reporter and her formidable black companion, who is both chambermaid and counsellor.This book is suitable for lovers of African adventure, readers of "The White Masai", "The Zanzibar Chest", "I Dreamed of Africa", "Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight", "Mukiwa", "Emma's War", and Francesca Marciano.When Italian-American journalist Anna arrives in Nairobi she knows that the daily atrocities she reports on will be upsetting, but she hadn't counted on having to battle her own personal demons too. To escape the violence that surrounds her, Anna finds herself drinking too much and getting ever more entangled with two men: Michael, a fellow war-correspondent and risk-taker, and Nick, a wealthy coffee farmer - each of them hard to resist, each of them hard to love. And then Mercy enters her life - ostensibly as her maid, but almost immediately becoming Anna's most adamant judge and her harshest critic, and gradually, painfully, also her confidante and her friend.
In "Anna and Mercy", Lara Santoro has created two forcefully memorable women whose dance of comprehension makes for a passionately powerful debut novel."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherPortobello Books Ltd
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846271061
- ISBN 13 9781846271069
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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