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oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 10:19 PM Sep 2014

Great read!

Just finished 'The True Sources of the Nile' by Sarah Stone. It is fiction, a love story, set in Burundi. LOTS of history and culture and stories of Burundi. The author did live there. The book is about something else. It has a human rights woman falling in love with a local high ranking Tutsi. The information about the Tutsi and Hutus is intense. I vaguely remember all this. The book makes it all very real. Well done. I found it at my local library. Had to get an atlas to find Burundi, smile.

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Great read! (Original Post) oldandhappy Sep 2014 OP
Thanks for the suggestion. Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #1
Thanks, oldandhappy. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #2

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
1. Thanks for the suggestion.
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 08:48 PM
Sep 2014

I love fiction set in places or times that I know little about. I am not crazy about "love stories" but this sounds like there is much more than that.

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