A Quilt of Dreams

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A Quilt of Dreams by Patricia Schonstein

Official Blurb:

Set in Grahamstown, South Africa, during the 1990s, at the height of political unrest and opposition to apartheid, this is the bittersweet story of two people whose lives intertwine without them ever knowing each other - one a heavy-drinking white man and the other the young daughter of a black activist. Reuben Cohen van Tonder's battle with unresolved grief and his search for hidden peace and Vita Marangxa's innocent resolve to remove the bad luck which has troubled her family for generations, climax together in a wondrous resolution of personal and national triumph. This tale captures the harsh and brutal realities of South Africa's past with its raw and sore racism, interlacing them with enchantment, tenderness, forgiveness and hope.

Reader Review:

Patricia Schonstein is a wonderfully readable author - not for her the difficult prose and philosophical abstractions of some of our other South African writers. You will be inexorably drawn into the lives of her remarkable characters and live, love, suffer and finally find resolution with them. You will love this book, a book that recalls our turbulent past, without being preachy or judgmental. Schonstein weaves a compelling story about people who become real and important to us, as do their sometimes achingly familiar lives. (Kate Turkington, 702 Talk Radio)

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A Quilt of Dreams by Patricia Schonstein

This sounds like an interesting book, and I do like Kate Turkingtons reviews - have you read her book ? It's called There is more to life than surface.

"We must always acknowledge the interconnectedness of all things". These words of the Dalai Lama have an undeniable resonance in the experiences of the people we encounter in this book. What, for instance, connects a Native American Shaman in Arizona with an Aboriginal elder in Australia's Northern Territory? What links them to a blind African prophet and artist? Or a Jewish woman who gave up a home and family in California to build a retreat in the sacred valley of the Incas? And what does meeting a golden lioness on the banks of the Amazon river have to do with a murdered lioness in Southern Africa? How did the Dalai Lama's words impact on a well-educated cynic and non-believer who unexpectedly found herself undergoing a mindshift on a magical journey to the ancient sacred places of Peru? Kate Thurkington was that cynic and non-believer and she shares the the experience of the spiritual journey that she had, unknowingly been travelling all her life - experiences that have changed her life.