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By: dwi astuti

dwi astuti — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:08:20 +0000

this will be one my favourites book ever.i just love it every words….beautiful and inspiring…i ll wait for ur next books.

By: Chels

Chels — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:53:00 +0000

I just finished your book this morning and I loved it. I had bought it and read it in about two hours! Some of it reminded me of when I went abroad to work for a bit and from listening to stories of friends from Africa. I loved the book and it came at a perfect time as I am talking with friends over there to make plans to work in the public health field.

Loved the book!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:43:25 +0000

What an incredible book. You succeeded in drawing me into the place so completely, and I wanted to be there. I think one of the reviewers was right in saying it’s all about intimacy. I was amazed at your capacity to notice and describe moments. Perhaps when you are so close to life and death, life’s small and intimate moments become very important. Reading about your isolation helped me deal with my own – having recently left my beloved Sydney for a city where I know no-one. Meanwhile my university psych study attempts to explain human behaviour in biological and cognitive models which do little to elucidate why human connection is so important to us.
Thank you, your book changed me.
Jenny

By: Natercia Simoes

Natercia Simoes — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:33:45 +0000

I finished your book this morning. I bought it in London, when I went to the UK for a training related with medicines. I’m glad for it, I haven’t found it at my country yet. I just want to say that I wish one day I can contribute as you did, at least I’m working on that. I must say that I got tears in my eyes several times, which came back as I looked at your pictures.
Congratulations for the nomination! And also for Aweil, I’m glad she is alive – I just kept thinking that you would take her home with you, until I got to the end.
Best of luck and thank you for sharing!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:57:10 +0000

Mate,

Your writing style makes me chuckle, I think that might be what makes you so accesible. I had a lump in my throat throughout the book, it made me cry twice, something I am strangely proud of. I think I’m proud that I actually care. I had a look at your video ‘Abyei falls away’ on youtube mere minutes ago. It proved to me that it was real, just as the pictures that you included did, one could be forgiven for thinking such suffering was simply a story, but every time a polaroid appeared, it unapologetically thrust the situation into the present tense.

I’m writing all of this pointless prose simply to thank you. I also want you to understand the effect your book had on me.

Dan

By: Helen Kampa

Helen Kampa — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:00:41 +0000

I just finished your book and I thank you for your candor. I went to Uganda in 1997 as a nurse on a short term mission team with the task of building a church. I am now retired but your words brought me right back to a world that has not changed for the better. You stirred my memories about being forever changed by the experience. I will follow you with interest and wish I were young enough to return to Africa. Keep up the good work!

By: Lungguh eka

Lungguh eka — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:35:28 +0000

Is’t impossible to bring aweil back with you?
Congragulations for the SMiS.
Amazing and very inspired..