This book has more to offer then originally meets the eye. Classified as a novel, but I understand it to be the memories of one person who has learned and grown from the help of a stranger. This stranger idea is a bit odd to an American as we teach children to not speak to strangers. This story tells of a Berber who saves himself from the horrors of his native country, Algeria. He lives an honorable life with conflicts of necessities and horrors that happen to him for believing in the ultimate understanding of freedom. Djaffer’s greatest strength might seem to be courage or perseverance, but I see it as compassion and thanksgiving. He takes a trip around the world to obtain life liberty, and pursuit of happiness, but he takes the trip back to thank those strangers that had helped him survive. He went back to save a beast of burden from the burdens and pains of the hands of another man.
If you want a story that can revitalize your hope in humanity, read on. If you want some insight to North Africa peoples and country conflicts, this is a human story inside the burdens of country and countrymen. If you have ever read the blog Simon Lev, who is one of the people the book is dedicated to, then you should read it. The idea of how the world circles around and connects people, strangers’ to begin with but caring community because of a life one runs across.
This book is recommended.
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