Inspired by real events, Congo Dawn
combines epic drama with an intimate journey into the heart of a
fractured family, as two characters, in search of people they lost, at
last find a way to come home. It is a landmark novel about good and
evil, and the inexhaustible power of love.
You can't go back and change the past. All you have left is the future.
Melbourne secretary Anna Emerson's life is turned upside down when a stranger
hands her a plane ticket to the Congo. The newly independent country is
in turmoil, Simba rebels are on the move - but the invitation holds a
precious clue to the whereabouts of her estranged father.
Dan
Miller signs up as a mercenary commando to fight the Communist uprising.
He supports the cause, but that's not really why he's there. A
devastating tragedy has taken all meaning from his life, and he's got
nothing left to lose.
In the Congo, Dan's belief in the war
begins to crumble. Anna heads deeper into danger as she travels from a
grand colonial mansion to an abandoned hotel on the shores of Lake
Tanganyika, to a leprosy mission in the jungle and beyond. Their two
paths collide through circumstances more extraordinary than fate.
'Katherine Scholes is
one of those rare writers who connects Australia to Africa in creative
fiction. This is, in the best sense, a big, lusty novel. But it exceeds
most such novels in sensitivity and imagination, in potent narrative and
artistic terms.' Tom Keneally
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F - 2160 | Congo Dawn by Katherine Scholes
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