Kalahari Passage: Koba book 2
Koba and Mannie
have been in jail. Their crime, loving each other across the Apartheid colour
bar in southern Africa. Koba escapes her captors and using her bush skills,
finds her way across the semi-desert to her former tribal home. But adapting to
a hunter-gatherer lifestyle after a decade away, has challenges. And her mortal
enemy is on her trail.
Meanwhile Mannie absconds during his parole
and sets off on a sub-continental road trip to find his beloved Koba. But will
his new comrades persuade him to join them across the border for training in
deadly guerrilla warfare? And what will that mean for his future with
Koba?
Under tragic circumstances the lovers meet,
but the danger they are in means they face
heart-breaking choices.
Kalahari Passage is an action-packed story of a search for identity and love. Readers will be spellbound by Koba’s world where an ancient culture dances, trances and lives in harmony with the land.
Review
What an interesting piece of fictional anthropology that weaves a culture from the dawn of humanity into the modern horrors of racism. I'm not sure I've ever read a romantic novel that left me more shaken. I am struggling to find the right words to review a book that felt more like a revelation than a story. The characters are deftly created through a deep understanding of the cultural events that shaped them. The events have unexpected complications and there is deft use of symbolism.
I highly recommend this book if you enjoy your stories to have impact beyond the reading. This brilliantly-written interracial love story will provoke thought as you look at your own place in the complex world and hopefully ask yourself how we can make the world a little less cruel for everyone living in it.
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Links
Kalahari Passage: https://mybook.to/7qAtkQA
Koba series: https://mybook.to/T81RWsf
Author Bio –
Candi Miller was born in southern Africa and has spent more than twenty years researching the first peoples of the region, a group who have now adopted the exonym of San or Bushmen. She taught creative writing at UK universities. She now lives in Cornwall where she is writing the last book of the Koba trilogy. She is republishing her novels to support a school feeding scheme she co-founded for San children in 2017.
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