Okavango Gods
by
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About the Book
Pula is the son of the rainmaker and he fishes with his father from a mokoro on the Okavango River. Above him he sees aircraft rising into the clouds and he too wants to fly. He and his dear friend Julia are caught in the biggest flood ever to hit the Okavango Delta. They are rescued from Shakawe by an American pilot flying a C130 Hercules…………… A huge wave of global change now swamps the world, old cultures and long-honoured beliefs are questioned, small languages and small communities are being destroyed, some people are endangered - not only birds and beasts. The cycles of flood and drought have been around since Gilgamesh’s time, so have unstable metaphysical explanations for them, the eternal role of fickle gods. Even Okavango Gods. Current change in the Okavango Delta and ancient change in the Euphrates are perhaps not so far apart after all. Man will bring about the change, the ancient gods are no longer reliable, the future lies in man’s volition.
About the Author
Born in South Africa, educated University of the Witwatersrand (BA Rand), and Oxford University (B.Litt Oxon). Former executive of South African Associated Newspapers. Chief Executive of the Financial Mail. Former Adviser to the Chamber of Mines of South Africa on African Affairs. Current President of the South African Centre of International PEN. Chairman of Editorial Board of six PEN volumes of NEW SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING, and of the recent PEN anthologies: AFRICAN COMPASS 2005, AFRICAN ROAD 2006 and AFRICAN PENS 2007. The major objectives of the global writers organisation INTERNATIONAL PEN is to encourage literature and defend freedom of expression. Anthony Fleischer has been a member of the PEN Club for fifty years, and is still writing. Previous novels: THE SKIN IS DEEP - SECKER & WARBURG, London GARIBALDI'S SKI-BOAT - André Deutsch, London (Now on iUniverse) FLY AWAY PAUL - André Deutsch, London VAGABOND FLAG - Macmillan, London. CHILDREN OF ADAMASTOR - Robert Hale, London (Now on iUniverse) OKAVANGO GODS - David Philip, Cape Town (Now on iUniverse) French language publisher - Les Presses de la Cité, Paris. German language publisher - Rex Verlag, Munich Italian language publisher - Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan. Forthcoming title: BENEDICT THE ZULU - to be launched 2010 by iUniverse, followed by traditional print editions. An Orwellian story out of Africa. Watch this space!.