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Title:Acts of Faith
Author:Philip Caputo
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 688 pages
Published:May 9th 2006 by Vintage (first published 2005)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Northern Africa. Sudan. War

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Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who can’t help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander. As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.   

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Original Title: Acts of Faith
ISBN: 0375725970 (ISBN13: 9780375725975)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Sudan

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It's a novel, but firmly rooted in the surreal realities of modern-day Sudan. Caputo, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, wrote it after being on assignment for National Geographic Adventure magazine. He did a phenomenal job of capturing the Sudanese dynamic, including the strange reverberations set in motion by well-meaning if uncritical FBOs and NGOs. It's a great read, too.

This is a book with a compelling plotline and a five star ending that just takes too long getting there. When the middle third of this read turned out to be pretty much nothing but unlikely love affairs between at least four couples, I wondered what was going on in Caputo's life during the writing that caused him to forget his novel about Sudan and start writing a soap opera. I almost gave up, but the last third of the book is so good, and the ending is the kind of Graham-Greene-sobering that a

This was definitely a solid historical fiction novel surrounding events in the Second Sudanese Civil War. With an array of characters thrust into different situations and settings, it would take forever to provide a basic synopsis of this book. However, this book can be best described as following multiple aid workers from all parts of the world who help the ravaged tribes of South Sudan by flying in aid to South Sudan from Kenya. I will say one character in particular that I connected to was

This long but rewarding book is not particularly well written, but it's a compelling story (or set of stories), with complex characters dealing with a set of important issues. Most of the main characters are involved in providing aid to Sudan, plus two characters directly involved in the conflict, one a Muslim tribal headman who fights on the side of the government, and a nominally Christian rebel leader. All of the characters act out of some kind of faith, even if it's a secular faith. Most are

Acts of Faith is a fantastic piece of literature. Caputo brilliantly intertwines the lives of multiple characters and makes each one feel unique and alive. The title of the story speaks to how faith plays in the lives of each of the characters. Some place faith in themselves, or nature, or religion. Caputo masterfully shows how these faiths turn into actions and how these actions affect others. I must be honest though, I almost put this book down after reading the first 100 pages. I wasn't

The compactness of this paperback format is deceptive; this book has an epic plot spanning years of political turmoil, an expansive cast that repeatedly sends you to the front of the book to refer back to the dramatis personae, and sometimes, just way too much going on.Nonetheless, Caputo just barely manages this huge effort - a bunch of people jockey for contracts to fly relief aid to the Sudan. Whether it's profiteering or not is a theme; so is the benevolent paternalism many of the characters