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EVERY DAY in Africa, approximately 7,000 men, women, and children are erased from the face of this planet by the devastating AIDS virus that — even after more than two and a half decades — continues to wreak havoc around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations. No Place Left to Bury the Dead dares to go where media, governments, and ordinary individuals in the West seldom venture — face-to-face with fellow humans suffering in the shadow of our collective … More >>
No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic
Incredible book. Itano, an American journalist, focuses on the issue of AIDS in Africa not by just being a distant reporter of facts. Instead she lived among people suffering from the disease and thereby weaves facts, history and personal accounts to tell the story.
The book is divided into three sections. ‘Denial’ is centered around a lady and her son living in Lesotho. ‘Despair’ focuses on a family of AIDS orphans being raised by the grandparents in rural South Africa and `Hope’ takes us to Botswana again to a single mom and a child living with AIDS. I have to say I experienced more ‘despair’ as I read this book. (Maybe why it took me so long to finish it.) There is hope in terms of Botswana providing antiviral drugs free to her citizens but the lives of these people living in extreme poverty and facing certain a life of despair seems hopeless nonetheless.
I personally liked how Itano would set aside her journalistic approach at times and get involved in the lives of these people. It showed the author was truly human as she cared. It invites the reader to do the same.
This is a book we should all read. Itano brings home the need for the world community to act on behalf of Africa. Compassion should drive us to care for these people facing a life of hopelessness. Justice should drive us to look for ways to stem the tide of death.
Rating: 5 / 5
Ms. Itano obviously feels very strongly about the subject matter that she writes about, and is very familiar with it having lived in South Africa for the past several years.
Rating: 5 / 5
No Place Left to Bury the Dead is one of the best books that I have ever read. The author, Nicole Itano, beautifully tells the story how HIV/AIDS affects the lives of three families in three different African counties. The author also brilliantly weaves in the history of the pandemic and its spread not only in Africa but throughout the world. The book explores several cultural,social and public health aspects of AIDS in Africa that I feel are often overlook in our Western view of the world. This book made me smile, it made me angry and it made me cry. It refined my view of the AIDS pandemic and opened my heart with a new found compassion. I could not put the book down. I true MUST read.No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic
Rating: 5 / 5
Ms. Itano’s work makes the complex challenge that HIV/AIDS poses to southern Africa and the world at large understandable to the lay reader. She blends personal stories with lessons on history, culture, and medicine, making AIDS personal for her readers. Her characters are compelling, and her personal relationship to and concern for them is evident. I’m looking forward to her next book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I visited South Africa in 2006 so I feel this book is very relevant to my experiences there. If you want to learn about truth and suffering, and step back into reality, this is the book that will help you do that. There is truly no place left to bury the dead in South Africa.
Rating: 5 / 5