Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

by Lauren St. John

Book Overview

This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743286790
• ISBN13: 9780743286794
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

mesmerizing/gripping

Flawless - in every sense - absolutely incredible breadth of space - the view you get through your own eyes is truly very real and utterly horrific.... I grew up like this and I know what it takes to come out of it whole (or at least partly) - as you will never forget how and why we become the soil that makes us true ZIMBABWEANS. Thank you Alexandra - you are a legend.

Beautiful Memoir

This book is a beautifully written memoir of childhood that,importantly for me, does a fantastic job of evoking the time and place, scents and sounds of growing up on a farm in the bush. Perhaps more meaningful to me since I've traveled in southern Africa, but its a wonderful story for anyone not just those interested in that period and that place.

Beautiful

If you like memoirs -- and travel -- you will love this beautifully written book. Nothing sloppy here. Clear, lovely prose. Family, war, romance, Africa -- it is all here. Enjoy.