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The Thunder That Roars, by Imran Garda
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Yusuf Carrim has made it in New York. His tech-savvy coverage of the Arab Spring saw his journalism career skyrocket. But when his wealthy father asks him to help look for a missing family friend called Sam, he must return to South Africa. Yusuf's search takes him to places he could never have imagined. Enlisting the help of an eccentric professor and Sam’s exotic uncle, Yusuf discovers facts that call his own origins into question – and prompt him to step up the search for Sam before it is too late. From the suburbs of Johannesburg to the streets of Bulawayo, from Dubai airport to an immigrant center on the island of Lampedusa, Yusuf’s quest to find Sam turns into an inward journey of his own. The Thunder That Roars is Imran Garda’s cosmopolitan, fast-paced debut.
The Thunder That Roars, by Imran Garda- Amazon Sales Rank: #2477027 in Books
- Brand: Garda, Imran
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.60" h x .70" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
About the Author IMRAN GARDA is a journalist and news anchor. Most recently he hosted the award-winning and Emmy-nominated show The Stream. He joined Al Jazeera in 2006 and anchored the news from Doha, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington, D.C. He has reported from the U.S., Sudan, Turkey, Egypt, Namibia, Bahrain, Lesotho, India, South Africa and Saudi Arabia. He also hosted the Gaza war series Focus on Gaza and presented the documentaries The Father of the Turks; A Voyage of Life and Death and India's Silent War. Imran Garda has penned feature articles and blogposts on aljazeera.com and The Huffington Post. He currently lives in San Francisco.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A bold and fascinating novel of personal discovery in an exciting backdrop By Eric Garland "Let the world become a brotherhood before it becomes a neighborhood," is a 20th century expression that implores us to improve the quality of our relationships before technology increases their number and complexity. The bad news is that it's too late for this sentiment. The world is connected and interdependent, yet we know little about our neighbors, little about that interconnection, and perhaps disturbingly little about ourselves on top of it all. Into this whirling backdrop steps global journalist Imran Garda, best known as a television host on Al Jazeera English, with The Thunder That Roars, a breathtakingly strong debut novel about the self-discovery and strained relationships of human beings in an era that defies understanding.The central character of the story is Yusuf Carrim, a South African journalist of Indian Muslim extraction who is a precocious rising star in the world of global journalism, having made a major reputation for his contributions to coverage of the Arab Spring. (Any comparisons to Garda, a young journalist of Indian Muslim extraction from Johannesburg, are probably not coincidental.) Carrim splits his time between coverage of global events in the Middle East and gritting his teeth through shallow house parties in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His success is not enough to salve a growing emptiness draining him from an unknown source. When he receives word from home that Sam, his family's long-time gardener, has disappeared, Yusuf instantly boards a plane to South Africa to express concern, seek atonement, or perhaps force a reckoning.Yusuf returns to his family's home to find a tense, roiling discontent in the wake of Sam's disappearance. His step-mother and father express are opinionated and appear generally devoid of compassion. Sam's wife and children are stoic, fearing the worst. Only Yusuf's favorite university professor explains the situation in its gravity - that Sam may have gone to be a gunman during the Libyan uprising. Yusuf takes it upon himself to apply his ability to investigate stories as a measure of devotion to his family friend, or, tacitly, as a way to use his worldly success as a journalist to heal divisions in his family he scarcely understands. He departs on an adventure that will take him on a dangerous path from Zimbabwe to North Africa to the dungeons of Europe's illegal immigration centers.What is in principle supposed to be a search for Sam the gardener becomes, through a series of increasingly dangerous events, an exploration of the darkest sides of Yusuf's own personality. Though the near-death experiences and dank prison cells hold the most obvious peril, what threatens to break the young man is a series of revelations of vital details about his life that have been complete untruths. By the end of the story, the international media has been brought in to the adventure, using its camcorders and blog posts to paint a thin veneer of rational narrative on a journey that offers little but mystery, confusion and pain for Yusuf and the rest of his family.While the descriptions of darkness and lack of a happy ending sound for depressing reading, the novel is challenging and satisfying from cover to cover. Garda's author photo looks about twenty years short of the age normally associated with this much depth of insight into cultures, political events, and the human condition. His prose is at once richly detailed and economical. He has a sharp eye for the contradictions of globalization: the women with $10,000 handbags in "developing" economies; international journalists whose greatest fascination is in the mirror; popular revolutions that seem to end back up at the same old economic inequality and ethnic social hierarchies with only superficial changes. None of Garda's characters are caricatures or plot devices to advance Yusuf's odyssey, but seem to exhibit the same multi-layered and contradictory motivations of the world they inhabit.His treatment of Islam is especially remarkable, exploring how many people throughout Africa relate to the religion and its spirituality. It may be the only writing I have experienced since The Yacoubian Building that depicts Muslims who are at turns lapsed, moderate or devout, and which also deals frankly with the role of fundamentalism and terrorism. Once again, there is nothing shallow or caricatural about Garda's writing.The story comes to a finish as Yusuf tracks Sam from the Cape of Good Hope to Sicily and back. There is no victory parade. Everybody seems to go on as before, altered but not transformed. Just as in real life, you expect that adventures will conclude through a defined ending, happy or not. But instead, the world continues inexorably. How you interpret it, what you learn and what you do differently is up to the individual.Imran Garda, journalist and authorImran Garda's first novel offers much to the reader. If you are from any one of Africa's nations, you might revel in the depiction of the continent and its people free from red sunsets, tribal drums and animal reserves. If you enjoy travel and hunger for new insights about the world, Garda's perceptive descriptions will give you a three-dimensional view on nations and people which normally only appear to Westerners as sensational jpegs. Otherwise, this is simply excellent, character-driven fiction provided on an original backdrop. One can only imagine what Garda will offer us next.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. a young South African man's search leads to more than he bargained for By Penny de Vries I really enjoyed this book. It tells the story of Yusuf Carrim, a young South African man from a Muslim background, who is a journalist living in New York. He finds out that Sam, a Zimbabwean man who has worked for his family as a gardener since Yusuf was a child, is missing after having travelled to Libya. He feels drawn to return to South Africa to help find him. In the very first chapter, I was reminded of Fugard’s ‘Master Harold and the Boys’; maybe it was partly because of the name Sam as well as the almost fatherly role this man adopts with the 9 year old Yusuf. Although, Yusuf is nowhere near as dreadful as Hally was to his Sam, betrayal is a theme that runs through the story.In trying to find Sam, Yusuf stumbles upon family secrets that will shake his sense of identity and lead him to dangerous places both physically and emotionally. It is a story of our times in a global sense touching on many of the upheavals of the 21st century such as the Arab Spring, displaced people and refugee centres. It is also a story that is deeply rooted in our apartheid past and the devastating effect it had and is still having on people’s lives. The propensity for instant gratification that the media satisfies, whether through talk shows or Twitter, is another thread that situates the novel firmly in the 21st centuryOne of the aspects I enjoyed about The Thunder That Roars is the way it gives a voice to those that remain marginalised twenty years of democracy later. The dominant narrative about so many things in South Africa still seems to be from a white perspective, whether this be Zimbabwean politics or affirmative action. The writer’s depiction of the racist attitude of the man sitting next to him on the flight to Bulawayo is perfectly executed, I hear people talking this way about Zimbabwe often. This is counter-pointed by Sam’s uncle, Skuzukuduma, taking Yusuf on a tour of Bulawayo and giving him a running commentary criticising all facets of society, especially the remaining white ‘settlers’ and the MDM politicians. We need these voices to be heard.There are three strong male characters whom Yusuf encounters during his search in different contexts; Skuzukuduma, Professor Odinka and Idris, the Somalian refugee. Each one assists him, teaches him and offers him difficult truths to digest. They are all fascinating, quirky characters that add richness to the narrative. .Yusuf as a character is very appealing; he lies, he womanises, he judges others (like his father) without recognising where his behaviour is similar yet he goes to the ends of the earth in his attempt to find Sam. He wants to do the right thing but he struggles to overcome his own moral weakness. Most of the women he chooses are trophy girlfriends except for two women who see through him and give him short shrift. It is refreshing to encounter a character that is so human instead of the fairly typical all-good or all-bad characters that so often litter novels.Many of the reasons I enjoyed this book are also personal. It is partly set in Yeoville, Johannesburg where I grew up so I can imagine the very streets where the action takes place. The characters are so familiar too; I recognise them. Such as Pedro, the workshop manager, who is still called ‘baas’ and still calls Sam’s friend, Phineas, ‘kaffir’. As Skuzukuduma says, ‘The more things change the more they seem to stay the same.’ And the ending, while no fairytale, is apt.Really a great read with a fast pace, authentic and thought-provoking too. More please, Mr Garda.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Thunder That Roars is a Mesmerizing Story and a Must Read! By Writerthee With revolutions shattering our world into millions of intractable fragments, how do you handle the revolution within?This is one man's journey across the globe to unravel the truth, but is it the truth that makes us who we are, or the lies that create us?Excellent story that is poignant, stirring, and will leave you questioning everything about humanity. This read will stay with you, long after the last page.
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