Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

by Lauren St. John and St John Lauren

Book Overview

This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743286804
• ISBN13: 9780743286800
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

mesmerizing/gripping

Flawless - in every sense - absolutely incredible breadth of space - the view you get through your own eyes is truly very real and utterly horrific.... I grew up like this and I know what it takes to come out of it whole (or at least partly) - as you will never forget how and why we become the soil that makes us true ZIMBABWEANS. Thank you Alexandra - you are a legend.

Beautiful Memoir

This book is a beautifully written memoir of childhood that,importantly for me, does a fantastic job of evoking the time and place, scents and sounds of growing up on a farm in the bush. Perhaps more meaningful to me since I've traveled in southern Africa, but its a wonderful story for anyone not just those interested in that period and that place.

Beautiful

If you like memoirs -- and travel -- you will love this beautifully written book. Nothing sloppy here. Clear, lovely prose. Family, war, romance, Africa -- it is all here. Enjoy.