THE LAST LIFELINE edition by Jane Nannono Literature Fiction eBooks
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A middle-aged, independent, has-it-all, African woman in Botswana,survives a nearly fatal road traffic accident in March 2004. She begins a tortuous journey of physical, mental and emotional healing. It happens at a time when she has been stripped of almost all close connections to family and friends. Amazingly, she finds healing in the most unlikely of places the physiotherapy department of a local hospital through unlikely, simple people doing simple acts of kindness. As the physical landscape changes from winter to spring, she slowly renews herself from deep within. She fiercely fights to retain her most prized possession - her independence. She finally shakes off her demons and moves into an uncertain future , full of determination and excitement.
THE LAST LIFELINE edition by Jane Nannono Literature Fiction eBooks
Jane Nannono's book is narrated by the principal character, Mma Palai, a science teacher wife of one of Botswana's top lawyers. The story develops slowly in an introspective style that makes many detours into poetry, religion and flashback.The beginning finds her struggling to recover from a serious injury, the scenes switching between her luxurious home and the physiotherapy clinic where she is being treated.
The detailed descriptions of her comfortable home life with its servants, sumptuous meals, fine wines and fine clothes threaten to drown the story into a soap-opera, but slowly the truth bursts forth. Within all the luxurious trappings she is facing her illness alone. Her children are at college in South Africa and her husband is away on government business. Her mother lives in a distant village, her sister in Europe and her best friend in South Africa. The most repeated scene of comfort is not in the arms of a husband, son or mother, but in a hot bath. Her servants and the people she has met at the clinic become a surrogate family. She makes do with those and their stories weave into hers.
The story is set in Botswana, a singular success story in Africa, a country which has known peace, prosperity and good governance for two generations. Thus many hassles that typically inhabit African life and African fiction are absent. We meet neither the harassing bureaucrats nor the needy relatives; neither the impassable roads nor the squalid slums. Only AIDS, which hit Botswana particularly hard, figures prominently in the story. It is against this background of material well-being that the cloud of deprivation looms over Mma Palai's life. In a prosperous city she has rank, she has wealth, she has the best medical care money can buy, but she has no close family at her side. Family comfort comes to her via long-distance phone calls as she struggles through the treatment.
The narration is reticent, some sources of sorrow are merely hinted at and only become clear at the end of the book. The final revelation puts the book in focus and left this reader both engrossed and disturbed. Mma Palai is a twenty-first century science teacher but is a wife and mother from Old Africa. She does not wash her family's dirty linen in public. The unhappiness at the center of her life is revealed in polite and restrained, indeed respectful, language; a restraint that makes the story even more poignant.
I strongly recommend this book but beware, it is not your ordinary "beach reader". It is a slow-moving, introspective and in the end both a triumphant and a painful story.
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THE LAST LIFELINE edition by Jane Nannono Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Jane Nannono has successfully managed to pull off a first novel in a work full of courage, generosity and candidness The context is southern Africa. However, the message will resonate particularly true with that professional middle-class woman, anywhere on the Continent, that is often challenged with life's reality of loneliness while shrouded in the myth of the virtues of marriage. If at all this is fiction, it is powerful and a highly recommendable read!
Jane Nannono's book is narrated by the principal character, Mma Palai, a science teacher wife of one of Botswana's top lawyers. The story develops slowly in an introspective style that makes many detours into poetry, religion and flashback.
The beginning finds her struggling to recover from a serious injury, the scenes switching between her luxurious home and the physiotherapy clinic where she is being treated.
The detailed descriptions of her comfortable home life with its servants, sumptuous meals, fine wines and fine clothes threaten to drown the story into a soap-opera, but slowly the truth bursts forth. Within all the luxurious trappings she is facing her illness alone. Her children are at college in South Africa and her husband is away on government business. Her mother lives in a distant village, her sister in Europe and her best friend in South Africa. The most repeated scene of comfort is not in the arms of a husband, son or mother, but in a hot bath. Her servants and the people she has met at the clinic become a surrogate family. She makes do with those and their stories weave into hers.
The story is set in Botswana, a singular success story in Africa, a country which has known peace, prosperity and good governance for two generations. Thus many hassles that typically inhabit African life and African fiction are absent. We meet neither the harassing bureaucrats nor the needy relatives; neither the impassable roads nor the squalid slums. Only AIDS, which hit Botswana particularly hard, figures prominently in the story. It is against this background of material well-being that the cloud of deprivation looms over Mma Palai's life. In a prosperous city she has rank, she has wealth, she has the best medical care money can buy, but she has no close family at her side. Family comfort comes to her via long-distance phone calls as she struggles through the treatment.
The narration is reticent, some sources of sorrow are merely hinted at and only become clear at the end of the book. The final revelation puts the book in focus and left this reader both engrossed and disturbed. Mma Palai is a twenty-first century science teacher but is a wife and mother from Old Africa. She does not wash her family's dirty linen in public. The unhappiness at the center of her life is revealed in polite and restrained, indeed respectful, language; a restraint that makes the story even more poignant.
I strongly recommend this book but beware, it is not your ordinary "beach reader". It is a slow-moving, introspective and in the end both a triumphant and a painful story.
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