A review by exurbanis
Adé: A Love Story by Rebecca Walker
5.0
(Fiction, Contemporary, Literary)
This is subtitled a “love story” but this is no romance novel. An American (or was she a Brit? It doesn’t matter really) falls in love with a native Swahili man while in Kenya. When an epidemic breaks out, they attempt to flee to the first world.
Adé is a love story in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet. Haunting and heart-breaking, it deserves to be a classic of 21st century literature. I have not been as touched by a book in a long time as I was by Adé.
I’m not saying more—you’ll just have to read the book. It’s short, it’s lovely, and it will stay with you a long time.
4½ stars
This is subtitled a “love story” but this is no romance novel. An American (or was she a Brit? It doesn’t matter really) falls in love with a native Swahili man while in Kenya. When an epidemic breaks out, they attempt to flee to the first world.
Adé is a love story in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet. Haunting and heart-breaking, it deserves to be a classic of 21st century literature. I have not been as touched by a book in a long time as I was by Adé.
I’m not saying more—you’ll just have to read the book. It’s short, it’s lovely, and it will stay with you a long time.
4½ stars