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    Book 5: Streets Paved with Gold
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    Book 5: Streets Paved with Gold

    By Clive Cooke

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    These two stories are about coming home after many years absence. They are very different types of homecoming.
    In the first story, Leta, a young man from the country, returns to his village after several years’ absence in the big city. He has done well and is keen to show off his material wealth to impress the locals. The villagers are duly impressed. Everyone from the big city is assumed to be rich. However, his family and the elders of his clan remind him of his duties and obligations and he returns to the big city having learned a lesson in “Ubuntu”, or the African tradition of sharing your good fortune.
    In the second story, we meet Tshepo, a young woman academic, who has a successful international career at an American university. She has been out of the country for many years and plans to spend her sabbatical doing research. To her surprise she finds herself stepping back in time. Nothing at home seems to have changed. It is as if the country is in a time-warp. At the same time, Tshepo does not realize how much she herself has changed. On the first evening, she is hosted by her previous employer. The evening, which could have been an interesting cultural exchange, turns out to be a disaster of incorrect assumptions, misunderstandings and stereotyping.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClive Cooke
    Release dateMar 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301744794
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    Book 5: Streets Paved with Gold
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    Clive Cooke

    Worked for thirty years in the petrochemical industry in production and marketing, recently retired. Published ten books. Intends to devote more time to writing and to travelling.Specializes in small-scale human dramas rather than in epics. A shrewd observer of the complexities of human behavior. Loves contradictions and uncertainties. Health warning: there are unexploded land mines buried in my writing. The reader is advised to tread warily.Traveled extensively in Europe, North, Central and South America. Speaks four languages. Photograph: I'm the one on the left wearing the hat.

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