Human Love
A Novel
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Human Love
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Narrated by:
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Gregory St. John
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By:
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Andrei Makine
Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In Andrei Makine's most daring and ambitious novel since Dreams of My Russian Summers, in the midst of an insane African war somwehtere along the border between Angola and Zaire, two young people--Elias Almeida, a black revolutionary, and Anna, a Russian student--will struggle to stay together while forces beyond them work to tear them apart.
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Andrei Makine's story of love and cruelty follows "professional revolutionary" Elias Almeda as he struggles to reconcile his dreams for humanity with his personal wellbeing amidst a ruthless war of independence in post-colonial Africa. At once somber and idealistic, performer Gregory St. John captures the bristling passion of the young revolutionary with Rilke-esque lyrical poignancy. Even as he describes the inhumanity of war, St. John manages to find the familiar tone of a jaded youth with lofty dreams. A helpless bystander to his parent's murder, Almeda's political resolve is nourished as he travels from Cuba to the Soviet Union, studying insurrectionary tactics and Marxist ideology. Returning home, Almeda finds his efforts to build a better Africa continually frustrated by the relentless war that surrounds him.