In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul
A Sum of Our Oaths
โ Scribed by Dawood Ali McCallum
- Book ID
- 115229183
- Publisher
- Dawood Ali McCallum
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A retired English doctor on holiday in Kenya is arrested by a charismatic political leader for killing his father, a freedom fighter and one of the most important leaders of the Mau Mau Struggle fifty years earlier.
In the ensuing courtroom drama, as a murder charge grows into one of a war crime and long-buried secrets come to light, oaths sworn many decades earlier claim more lives, test personal friendships, strain international partnerships and shape the very future of Kenya itself.
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In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul