Night Fires
- ISBN-10
- 1935383965
- ISBN-13
- 9781935383963
- Series
- Night Fires
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 460
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-11
- Author
- Kathy Priddis
Description
The fire came up to meet him. His face flamed, and his hands scrabbled in the fierce white ash. Every nerve in his body shrieked in protest. His mouth opened and he roared with anguish and disbelief. It was a high-pitched sound, ugly and obscene, like the scream of a trapped animal. The white-hot ash burst in a cloud about his head, and with his next tortured breath, seared his lungs. Images of cold stone danced before his eyes, a chill cavernous interior, a charred cross.... To the glory of God this Cathedral burnt... Kaduna, Nigeria Dan Marsden, an English, self-indulgent, militant atheist, meets Hadissa, a devout Christian, who has escaped the exploitive culture of her bush village to become a casualty nurse in the city. Both Dan and Hadissa are recovering from broken relationships; she, with a married man and Dan, with his English girlfriend. Kaduna is hot, dusty and oppressive. Muslims and Christians battle for territory and the rule of Shariah Law. Street violence is rife, with armed robbery on the one arterial road a daily occurrence. A mosque is bombed, a passing Christian school bus wrecked. Dan and Hadissa are involved in the aftermath, and Dan falls in love with her. This is a tragic love story, an epic drama of cross-cultural tensions, religious conflict, jealousy and deceit, where the protagonists, though flawed and uncompromising, are reconciled through shared suffering and self-sacrifice.
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