Adé: A Love Story, by Rebecca Walker
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Adé: A Love Story, by Rebecca Walker
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In this stunning debut novel, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together―free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish.
Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.
Adé: A Love Story, by Rebecca Walker - Brand: Walker, Rebecca/ Edwards, Janina (NRT)
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l, .15 pounds
- Running time: 4 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Adé: A Love Story, by Rebecca Walker From Booklist In a fiction debut that is as much a novel of self-discovery and identity as a lucent love story, memoirist Walker brings her background and literary strengths to bear. When the 19-year-old unnamed narrator and her Yale friend, Miriam, start their long travels, arriving in Africa becomes life-changing. In Egypt, the narrator feels she belongs for the first time, with her copper-colored skin and brown, almond-shaped eyes. Then in Lamu, an island off the coast of Kenya, she falls in love with handsome Swahili Muslim Adé, who gives her the Arabic name Farida. As Miriam resumes traveling alone, Farida and Adé live together simply and make plans to marry. But Swahili custom requires face-to-face meetings to ask for parental approval, and political realities strike previously entitled American Farida for the first time. Walker knows whereof she writes. Farida, like the author (daughter of novelist Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Levanthal), is black, white, and Jewish and a child of divorce, and Walker uses this knowledge to good effect here. A brief, sensuous love story grounded in painful reality. --Michele Leber
Review "Read this book! An incredible journey! A beautiful LOVE story!" —Madonna
"Memoirist Walker makes her fiction debut with a short, sad tale of love that flowers but cannot take root in Kenya. The prose is gorgeous." —Kirkus Reviews“Vivid… [Adé] will not soon be forgotten.” —New York Journal of Books“[Adé] reads like a memoir, and its prose is as concentrated and image filled as a parable. Readers will relish the dreamlike story of love and surrender.”—Library Journal“A fiction debut that is as much a novel of self-discovery and identity as a lucent love story.” —Booklist“Walker’s prose aches with longing, and a knowingness… [Adé] feels as though it’s told in the weighty quiet of a late night conversation.” —STETnyc.com
“I want to say Adé reads like a memoir, but this heartbreaking, poetic tale of romance versus reality does more than that: it reads like truth. Lush, sensual, seductive, Adé is written with as much love as the story it tells.” —MAT JOHNSON, author of Pym “In luminous, dreamlike prose, Rebecca Walker has written more than a love story: Adé explores the difficulty of fleeing one’s origins, of relinquishing privilege, even in the name of love.” —DANZY SENNA, author of You Are Free and Caucasia “Brief and intense, Adé is a surprise gem–a sensuous feast of food, sex, danger, and the life of awakened senses from one of our most celebrated nonfiction writers. A lyrical novel as timeless as Marguerite Duras’s The Lover.” —MOLLY PEACOCK, author of The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72
“If you’ve ever dared to love outside the predictable geography of your origins, or wished you had, this beautiful novel will grab your heart and not let go.” —BLISS BROYARD, author of One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life–A Story of Race and Family Secrets
About the Author
REBECCA WALKER is the author of the best-selling memoirs Black, White and Jewish and Baby Love, and editor of the anthology Black Cool.No Bio
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Story is underdeveloped By L I am a fan of Rebecca Walker's previous work, having loved Baby Love and Black, White & Jewish, however Ade missed the mark as her fiction debut. Reading the first few chapters was troublesome and besides the poor sentence structure (I blame the editor), I tried to put a finger on what else was bothering me. As one reviewer stated, "this story reads like a book that was written for Kindle," complete with underdeveloped characters and an oddly paced story line. I too was disappointed that it did not have a new main character. I did not expect the book to have so much autobiographical content. It almost seems like a book that was written hurriedly, without the proper attention required. Though short, I did not bother finishing it. Buy it on Kindle if you are curious, but it is not worth the price charged for the print version. This will not be a favorite of anyone who reads avidly.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Eternal Love: Beautifully Written, Bittersweet Novella... By missmickee/bookreview The narrator, a 19 year old first generation Ivy League freshman at Yale University, had a close relationship with both her divorced parents, her mother Christian and father Jewish. When she meets her 21 year old free spirited feminist friend Miriam in a film studies class, they became fast friends. As they experienced the excitement of the college party scene, they decide to travel together to Africa, taking a year or so off from their course of study. With approval and extra funds provided by her parents, they began their travel adventure.Landing in Cairo Egypt she and Miriam traveled south, feeling the land deeply familiar. They soon were dehydrated from the heat and saw a doctor. As they learned to keep time by muezzins call to prayer, they could feel the silent intense observations and stares of the women hidden in the hajab covering of muslim dress. The men mostly wore white shirts and skullcaps. Taking a fast dip in the Nile River, they traveled seeing the vastness of the Arabian Sea and the desolation of the Sinai desert, and Mount Sinai, where Moses received the 10 Commandments. In the desert they marveled at how their tour guides navigated around without landmarks, maps, or a compass. Miriam was annoyed at the tourists overall and the disrespect of Muslim men towards women.They traveled by ferry to "Lamu" the island of sand and stone, in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Kenya. Here, our narrator meets Ade`, a handsome young highly respected Swahili man, who worked very hard, visited his mother in the evenings at Ramadan, and gave her all his money to support their large family. His mother, was one of his father's five wives, who all lived away together on another island. Ade' gave the narrator the Arabic name "Farida", (translation: jewel/exceptional, like no other) when they fell deeply in love and before they decided to marry. His family was disapproving and shocked preferring he marry a Swahili woman. They grew to accept her, teaching her how women lived by observing traditional ways and practices. Miriam, very disappointed, left Farida to travel on, cautioning that most men only wanted a woman from the west only to pay their way into Europe or the U.S. This, wasn't the case with Ade' and Farida, they both decided to remain in Lamu, and live according to Muslim custom; which would in time alter their life/love by unforeseen circumstances.This is one of the most bittersweet breath taking stories about timeless love I have read recently. It was hard to understand how a sophisticated college educated feminist could consider marriage to a devout Muslim from another culture. "Ade: A Love Story" fosters understanding and acceptance of this choice. This is Walkers fictional debut, she is also an award winning journalist, blogger, lecturer. Walker's book: "Baby Love" (2008) was well received. She is the daughter of acclaimed author Alice Walker.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Not impressed By Amazon Customer I have been a fan of Rebecca for a while, but I am wholly disappointed by this book.First, I hesitate to call it a novel because it is so short. More like a novella. Then, for anyone who has read her memoir, you will see that half of the book is borrowed from her real life. Ugh.I know that writers infuse themselves into their characters but this is a whole new level. I was hoping for creativity. Something new and refreshing from her, but I was sadly let down.The book is an extension of her memoir with a standard love story woven through. By the time you start caring about this couple, she's quickly ending the story.She's lucky she had the connections to get this published.Very disappointed.
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