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Acts of faith

✍ Scribed by Philip Caputo

Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
524 KB
Edition
1st ed
Category
Fiction
City
New York, Africa, Sudan, Sudan., Africa.
ISBN-13
9781400044917

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✦ Synopsis

This epic novel, based on the author's own experiences in Africa, tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan. The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corruption for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths--bravery, compassion, daring, and empathy--into weaknesses. In pursuit of noble ends, they make ethical compromises; their altruism curdles into self-righteous zealotry and greed, entangling them in a web of conspiracies that leads, finally, to murder. A few, however, escape the moral trap and find redemption in the discovery that firm convictions can blind the best-intentioned man or woman to the difference between right and wrong.

✦ Subjects

Sudan

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