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An exceptional book of love, friendship, and betrayal for lovers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of several persons whose intertwined lives are in once amazing and tragic, is definitely an absorbing and deeply moving tale. In apartheid South Africa in 1976, medical scholar Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after seeing a buddy killed by white people of the South African Defense Force. He's smuggled into Botswana, where he's employed as a farmer with a young American lady, Alice Mendelssohn, who has forgotten her Ph.D. Reports to check out her husband to Africa.