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Alexander McCall Smith is a world-renowned author of over 00 books including specialist titles, short story collections and many children’s books. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in various universities in the UK before writing novels. His best-known works are the 44 Scotland Street series, the Isabel Dalhousie novellas and the von Igelfeld series.
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Being the same age as the writer and growing up in the same area, the first few chapters took me straight back to my family home and I could virtually see and smell the sights and feelings he talks about. Wonderful story telling. From there, the book moves into adult life and growing up in apartheid South Africa as a white male and invites the reader to explore their own views and beliefs from that period. Inevitably, the book moves towards the "New South Africa" and into the post 1994 days, with it's highlights, hopes, euphoria and disappointments, problems and challenges.
This book is an easy read, but it is thought provoking in many ways and should be read by all South Africans, regardless of one's background.
I have read and own a lot of self-improvement books, this is the only one that has really propelled me into action. The short exercises in each chapter are well structured to enable you to learn about yourself and reasons behind your self-imposed limitations and gives great techniques and practical advise on how to overcome them, while also challenging you to think a lot about why you behave the way you do. I don't like writing in books usually - but this one is more of a workbook for myself now, so if you want to really give yourself a good shot at making some life changes - then this is the book for you.
This is a great book, and its very clear about many things that I have been asking myself as an Africa. Through reading the book I feel awaken spiritually and now I understand why religion never worked for my ancestors and it did not work for me too, because its not for me as an African. The book reveals that my foundation as an African is African spirituality. The book is clear about our ways as Africans to worship God and it shows how special, unique and powerful we are as the Alkebulan people. In the book I also learnt the difference between religion and spirituality.
Well I would advice people to buy the book not only Africans but even other races because spirituality is universal in the world we live in we need spirituality as the world is becoming more and more immoral, dangerous and scary , and I know its ONLY spirituality that can change this world. We have tried religion it did not help people are immoral and religious at the same time. This book is our start as mankind.
