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Taschenbuch: 688 Seiten
Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Reprint (9. Mai 2006)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0375725970
ISBN-13: 978-0375725975
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 13,2 x 3 cm

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Starred Review. Caputo's ambitious adventure novel, set against a backdrop of the Sudanese wars, makes for a dense, riveting update on Graham Greene's The Quiet American. The American in this case is Douglas Braithwaite, a "mercenary with a conscience" who founds Knight Air, a charter airline that conveys relief supplies from NGOs to war-torn southern Sudan. Braithwaite launches his service by flying aid to the Nuba, a region in the northern Sudanese sphere of influence that is a no-go zone for U.N.-sponsored airlines. He hires Fitzhugh Martin, a former soccer star and mixed-race Kenyan from the Seychelles Islands, as his operations manager, and soon teams up with Texan bush pilot Wes Dare as well as a shady Somali financier. From Fitzhugh's perspective, we see corruption ensue from Douglas's decision to expand his air service—crushing his competitor, Tara Whitcomb, in the process—and to smuggle arms to Michael Goraende, the Nuban militia head. Douglas's support for the Nuban commander also brings Quinette Hardin, a Christian aid worker from Iowa who marries Goreande, into Knight Air's orbit. Caputo presents a sharply observed, sweeping portrait, capturing the incestuous world of the aid groups, Sudan's multiethnic mix and the decayed milieu of Kenyan society. Though this long atmospheric novel offers a very slow build and doesn't always avoid formula, the understated climax that leads to Knight Air's demise is powerful in its impact.
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Few people give to charity without expecting something in return, whether it's a tax break, publicity, ego gratification, or even cold cash. And in Africa, the chances to gain by giving are like those nowhere else. Reporter, novelist, and nonfiction writer Caputo (The Ghosts of Tsavo, 2002) sets this fascinating tale of aid workers against Sudan's civil war, where the Muslim government in the north fights the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) for control of the Christian and animist south. The Kenyan town of Lokichokio, just over the border, serves as a staging area for relief organizations sending aid to the war zone. Quinette Hardin's WorldWide Christian Union tries to save souls by buying slaves back from their Muslim captors. Douglas Braithwaite's Knight Air takes risks the UN will not, defying Khartoum's "no go" zones to fly aid into the rebel-controlled Nuba Mountains. But Quinette wants more than to love--she wants to be loved. And Braithwaite wants more than two planes--he wants a fleet. Quinette marries an SPLA commander, and Braithwaite starts running guns, their rationalizations setting a series of extremely bloody events into motion. When those who give want so much, it gives us a powerful lens with which to view the heartbreaking problems of Africa, where temporary relief has become a permanent industry. This is a big novel, old fashioned in the best way, full of intrigue and a large cast of sharply drawn characters. And with a Sudan cease-fire recently in the news, it couldn't be timelier. Keir Graff
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Acts of Faith will be compared by many to the epic books about how people under stress in exotic circumstances reveal themselves such as The Quiet American. In this case, the stress in question is the desire to do the right thing . . . in a place and time when you will be tempted to let the ends justify the ends.

The war in the Sudan is the centerpiece of Acts of Faith. In this 660+ page novel, Mr. Caputo leisurely lulls you into taking sides against the Arab slavers . . . but reels you into realizing that the Christian do-gooders don't have clean hands either.

The story has several narrators. The most important is Fitzhugh Martin, a multiracial Kenyan who simply wants to have a job, but gains a purpose in life through serving the Sudanese. But Fitzhugh gets more than he bargained for when he joins the zealous American, Doug Braithwaite, in establishing a bush airline to deliver humanitarian supplies. Fitzhugh's perspective is the reader's lifeline back to the reality outside of the Sudan and the passions of the characters. Wesley Dare narrates from the perspective of a bush pilot whose altruism is tempered by the desire to make a big score and leave Africa forever. Quinette Harden narrates from the viewpoint of an ordinary American Christian woman who finds herself drawn to the unfolding struggle, particularly in rescuing slaves. She goes with the flow and becomes sucked into an unexpected life like quicksand. Finally, Ibrahim Idris ibn Nur-el-Din presents the Sudanese Arab perspective as he pursues his twin goals of keeping power and regaining his favorite female slave.

The core of the story revolves around a small area in the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan where a tiny medical mission has been tending to those fleeing from the Arab attacks on the black Africans in southern Sudan. The vulnerability of the mission and its patients quickly draws the sympathy of those who are new to the area. But the Sudanese government won't allow aid to reach the mission. The United Nations has a policy of requiring permission to fly in, and won't supply aid because Sudan opposes it. That leaves the desperate people there in need of help. Drawn initially by idealism, some of the bush pilots decide to supply aid. Funding isn't a problem. And the Sudanese government doesn't try very hard to stop the flights.

But as time passes, the needs of those in the Nuba Mountains change and grow. Those who have committed to helping them find themselves tempted to do more . . . than perhaps they should.

The book is filled with little moral challenges and lessons. An ethics teacher could use this book for years to generate interesting moral questions to consider.

Ultimately, though, the book is about peeling back the veneer of who we appear to be . . . to reveal who we really are. The character developments of Quinette Martin and Wesley Dare are masterful. The other characters are developed much less well. That was a disappointment because clearly Mr. Caputo has the skills to do more in this regard. Many of the characters, by comparison, are barely-sketched-in cardboard figures who simply tie the plot together. The problem seems to be that Mr. Caputo prefers to develop his characters through plot rather than by using revealed thoughts and selected background. The exception is Doug Braithwaite where selected background is used to try to reveal a lot, but the effect doesn't quite work as smoothly as it might.

Many will find this book to be ponderous and wish it were shorter. I didn't mind the length, but much of the plot development was predictable which made some parts a little more tedious than they might have been.

But Mr. Caputo is generous in his observations about the mixed nature of good and evil . . . and our tendency to justify ourselves in doing as we please. That's what made this book rewarding for me.

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