{"id":2506,"date":"2016-02-23T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/rules-of-wild.html"},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:47:00","slug":"rules-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/2016\/02\/rules-of-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>by Francesca Marciano<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fromoldblog\/a8f8d-rules2bof2bwild.jpeg\" style=\"clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fromoldblog\/579c8-rules2bof2bwild.jpeg\" width=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Feeling adrift when her father -an Italian poet- dies, Esm\u00e9 travels to Africa. She is smitten by the vast, incomprehensible beauty of Kenya and impulsively decides to ditch her travelling companion and stay. She takes up living with a safari tour guide, but falls in love with another guy who works as a war correspondent. It is a story of relationships- the ins and outs of friendships, who is with whom &#8211; a constant shuffle- for all the room in Africa, the group of European expats is so small it feels crammed with their too-close familiarity. Their widely varied reasons for being in Africa were interesting; not so much all the gossip and innuendo. The main character is kind of pathetic. She has no real reason to be there, never has a job, pines after men. And yet- although that major part of the novel did not interest me much- I found this book rather compelling. Because of the way life in Africa is described. Glimpses of wildlife and arguments on its management, race differences, third-world conditions and horrific stories of genocide in Rwanda are all background material to the story. I wish all that had been in the fore, instead. I liked the writing enough that I wanted to keep reading even though I idly forgot who was friends with whom and which person knew what about the other. I cared more for the picture of a vivid land with its struggles and squalor and beauty.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rating: 3\/5<\/b> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0293 pages, 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Francesca Marciano Feeling adrift when her father -an Italian poet- dies, Esm\u00e9 travels to Africa. She is smitten by the vast, incomprehensible beauty of Kenya and impulsively decides to ditch her travelling companion and stay. 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