White Dog Fell from the Sky (Audiobook)

from elkiedee

White Dog Fell from the Sky by Eleanor Morse is set in late 70s Botswana, not far (enough) from the border with apartheid South Africa, a changing country still struggling with social change. The main characters are a black South African refugee and an expat American woman working out where her f...

from gypsysmom

What a beautiful book this was. It will easily be one of my favourite books of 2014 and will be one that I remember for a long time. Isaac Muthethe has led a lucky life for a black man in South Africa during the apartheid regime. In 1976 his luck starts to fail him. He is on his way home from fir...

from CasaBooks

I cried. Several times.I read for "stories", but after getting to 'the end', knowing how everything turned out and closing the book, I realized there were more themes to think about than these 351.5 pages could seem to have held.Sneaky . . although they never got in the way of the storyline, now ...

from ParadisePorch

(Fiction, recent Historical, Literary) In mid-1970s apartheid S. Africa, medical student Isaac Muthethe has himself smuggled out of the country into Botswana. He is in danger in his home country because he witnessed the murder of a friend by white members of the South African Defense Force. He is...

from EllenMeeropol

Wow. This novel, set in Botswana and South Africa during apartheid, lives right in the fictional country I most admire - balancing on the crossroads of political turmoil and character's lives. Beautifully written and powerful. Thank you, Eleanor Morse.