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Adé: A Love Story
Adé: A Love Story
Adé: A Love Story
Audiobook3 hours

Adé: A Love Story

Written by Rebecca Walker

Narrated by Janina Edwards

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together—free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish.

Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 29, 2013
ISBN9781480544765
Adé: A Love Story
Author

Rebecca Walker

Rebecca Walker has contributed to the global conversation about race, gender, power, and the evolution of the human family for three decades. Since graduating from Yale, she has authored and edited seven bestselling books. Walker has written, developed, and produced film and television projects with Warner Brothers, NBC Universal, Amazon, HBO, and Paramount, and spoken at over four hundred universities and corporate campuses internationally, including Harvard, The Whitney Museum, and TEDx Lund. Walker cofounded the Third Wave Fund, which makes grants to women and transgender youth working for social justice. Walker has won many awards, including the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters, was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation, and continues to teach her masterclass, The Art of Memoir.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    (Fiction, Contemporary, Literary)This is subtitled a “love story” but this is no romance novel. An American (or was she a Brit? It doesn’t matter really) falls in love with a native Swahili man while in Kenya. When an epidemic breaks out, they attempt to flee to the first world.Adé is a love story in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet. Haunting and heart-breaking, it deserves to be a classic of 21st century literature. I have not been as touched by a book in a long time as I was by Adé.I’m not saying more—you’ll just have to read the book. It’s short, it’s lovely, and it will stay with you a long time.4½ stars
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    *** I received this book via a Goodreads Giveaway***Written in an unhurried manner, this book is a story about the naivete of first love and the reality of life getting in the way. Good book to curl up with on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    "You never know how this life will unfold."-FaridaOur un-named narrator is nineteen years old and feels "raw and unfinished." She is fascinated by her friend Miriam. They decide to go to Africa.During their journey she begins to change and become someone else. She feels familiar with this continent. Miriam is changing too. She is no longer the main attraction. They travel from Cairo to Nairobi but when they arrive on the small island of Lamu she meets Ade. It is Ade that changes her name to Farida.Ade possesses a certain kind of innocence. Farida is mesmerized by him. They fell into that easy kind of love. The kind of love that simmers. Love that's eternal."I was hungry for my future. It looked painfully bright."-FaridaAde and Farida start to become one. His religion and culture had certain requirements. They want a future together."...wondering how I would ever, in a million years, leave this man."-FaridaIt felt like destiny. Then there was a sudden shift.Ade is short. It's sweet. You will hang onto every word. When you finish you will immediately want to read it over and over and over again.