Vitor Martins Martins itibaren Cumnor
I read this book when I was about 10 years old. It was about reincarnation. That was my first real experience thinking about what could come after life.
Fi travels from America to Kenya and some very remote communities to bring library books by way of camel to people who are barely literate - and many of course are not at all. Fi suffers from typical American arrogance in thinking that by bringing books to such people she was helping them, that some how their lives had needed her and her books in order to be enriched. she has to learn that the people have a rich culture themselves that stories and songs are passed on by word of mouth, or made up on the spot and that people who have survived millenia without paper and words are naturally going to be suspicious of them. I was never convinced that Fi totally learned this lesson. I did think some relationships were a bit contrived and unrealistic - and without these "getting in the way" the author could have developed further the clash between cultures and modernity and traditional ways which was one of the most intresting aspects of the book.