![]() As a European living in North America I can't help but feel uncomfortable with some of the generalisations about white settlers - but then I can hardly complain about that when white settlers have been happily making much more crass generalisation about people of African and Native American origin for centuries. They seem to be dispatched from the story very casually - almost as an afterthought in some cases.įor me the central message was about our connection or disconnection with the land. With the exception of Sterling and (to some extent) Seese, the characters outlined in the story are so unsympathetic that their stories are hard to read. ![]() The reliance of people on technology and electricity has only got worse in the twenty-something years since the book was published. In many ways it seems prescient - we're hearing about migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa every day now, so the book's focus on mass waves of human movement from south to north seems to be true. ![]() I couldn't read a lot of it at one sitting and ended up having to borrow it from the library three times in order to finish it! ![]() It is very long, but somehow it's also very slow. This was a really difficult book to read. ![]()
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