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    No Greater Love

    By Kathi Macias

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    Forbidden romance, an unlikely martyr, and an even more unlikely hero


    Orphaned four years earlier when their parents, active in the African National Congress (ANC) movement against apartheid, were murdered—16-year-old Chioma and her 15-year-old brother Masozi now live and work on an Afrikaner family’s farm. When Chioma and Andrew, the farm owner’s son, find themselves attracted to one another, tragedy revisits their lives. Chioma escapes to join an ANC rebel band in her effort to survive and gain revenge for her family and culture. When cultures clash in life-or-death struggles, Chioma must choose between violence and revenge—or forgiveness and selfless love. Loosely based on historical events and set near Pretoria, South Africa, in the violent upheaval prior to ANC leader Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his ascendance to the presidency of South Africa, this story of forbidden romance produces an unlikely martyr who is replaced by one even more unlikely.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Hope Publishers
    Release dateApr 5, 2010
    ISBN9781596697768
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    Kathi Macias

    Avi Mizrachi was born and raised in a Jewish family in Israel. He served in the Israeli Air Force and did his reserve duties in the Israeli Defense Force. Avi is the founder and leader of Dugit Outreach Ministries. He still resides in Israel today with his wife, Chaya, his daughters and grandchildren.

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    • 4/5
      From my blog...No Greater Love is the first novel in Kathi Macias' Extreme Devotion series and it is a captivating debut, which will grab the reader's attention and tug at the reader's heart from the beginning until the last page. Macias brings the reader to the harrowing times of a deeply divided country, nearing the end of apartheid in South Africa, filled with oppression, segregation, degradation as well as strong characters, strong leaders, and unwavering faith. The reader gains insights into apartheid through the victims of apartheid, the freedom fighters, and the Afrikaners. An orphaned girl, her martyred father's journal, and the gift of a Bible help spread the word that Christianity and apartheid cannot co-exist. No Greater Love is told with vivid imagery, flowing prose, realistic characters, and the reader will be swept away with by Chioma's resilience, Andrew's questioning of right and wrong, Themba's brutality, and the Vorster's faith. Macias tells the tale through various sets of eyes, and while they are all of different stations each has a deep love for their country of South Africa. No Greater Love is an astonishingly beautiful tale of the brutality of apartheid and the grace of faith.
    • 4/5
      "1989 was not a good year to fall in love – at least not in South Africa, and certainly not with a white man."with that opening line, we are thrust into the life of Chioma, a young orphaned black woman who has a fierce hatred for everything about white people. and yet, she finds herself drawn to Andrew, a white man and the son of her employers. when Chioma’s brother Masozi is carelessly murdered by one of Andrew’s friends, the cultural imbalance and danger of apartheid is made vividly clear and the choices that they both make set a series of unexpected events into motion that will change the simplicity of life as they know it."He was an Afrikaner, and he knew his place. He was white; Chioma was coloured. Nothing else needed to be said."the narration hopped between the various characters and offered vastly different perspectives of the same series of events. this allowed Macias to really explore the prejudice, injustices, and religious convictions of each individual from a more personal place, and to provide insight to the strengths, weaknesses and development of each of the characters. i thought this was very well done and created a highly readable page turner that was difficult to put down. i also appreciated that although the book was published as Christian fiction and as a romance, that none of it was overdone. everything was presented tastefully in a way that makes this book accessible to readers across many genres."Chioma - She thought of her name and wondered, as she had so many times through the years, why her parents had labeled her so inappropriately. She could understand Masozi’s name, as tears were a familiar phenomenon to her people. But Chioma – “God is great”? She nearly snorted with contempt. If there was anything great about the gods, she had yet to see it, and certainly didn’t expect to any time soon."however, considering its Christian ties, i was surprised that there was as much conviction in the writing in regards to the violence and hypocrisy. i had naively expected something light and fluffy and Godly, but there were no pulled punches here. we see the actions of the militant group led by the fierce and aggressive Themba, as well as the often misguided intentions of the devout plantation owner Pieter and although they were on opposite sides of the hostility, the sincerity of their actions made them both seem accessible and honest.my favorite moments in the reading were those that explored the cultural history of South Africa through the militant groups and activists, like Chioma’s parents, that sacrificed their lives for the cause. the voice within her father’s journal actually felt the most tangible to me of all the characters and it really made me sympathize with Chioma and the plight of her people. I have come to the sad conclushen that sometimes vilence is warented.if i were to offer any criticism, it would be that i would have liked to have seen more depth and variety in the voices presented during the various narrators, but i thought that the presentation was sufficient. my only sort of nagging criticism is that in certain passages, there tended to be strings of rambling questions based on the characters stream of consciousness. it seemed to be an odd technique that distracted from the flow of the story for me. yet, at the same time, it was a very intimate look at the characters thought process, so i can’t really fault it either.all in all, i really enjoyed No Greater Love and would definitely recommend it to those looking for a good piece of Christian fiction, or even possibly for people who are just looking for an interesting cultural piece on South Africa. the mix of historical and cultural fiction with the romance and Christian aspects actually panned out to make a very nice read.