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

Acts of Faith

Philip Caputo

Paperback | Pages: 688 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 1717 Users | 251 Reviews

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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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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

Rating Of Books Acts of Faith

Ratings: 3.94 From 1717 Users | 251 Reviews

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It pains me to give a ho-hum review to a novel that was clearly so dear to the heart of the author; "Acts of Faith" must've been a labor of love for Philip Caputo...sadly, what mostly is conveyed is the labor and not the love (at least to this reader). I've never read a book so exasperating to read...often I was riveted AND bored at the same time. The core story is quite interesting: The world of humanitarian aid to Sudan during wartime and famine (as told by several different characters behind

Do you suppose war to be here what wars are elsewhere? Do you suppose that it is an event, with a discrete beginning that will proceed to a discrete middle und so weiter on to a discrete end? No! It is a condition of life, like drought. There is war in Sudan because there is war.Like Vietnam? Douglas murmured. Were here because were here because were here.Manfreds gaze passed from the Americans face to his boots, then back up again. I have no idea what you are talking about.___Acts of Faith is



This is a sweeping masterwork in which Africa is the central character. The characters include a mixed race, UN bureaucrat, a ladies man, who falls in love with the much older, white, wealthy, colonial woman, an American entrepreneur, a daredevil pilot who seeks to earn his fortune and transport supplies to the neediest and least served in Sudan, a young American missionary who falls in love with and ultimately marries a tribal leader, a corrupt local businessman. Africa, in this accounting, is

Because there is way too much going on in this 700-page saga to cover it all in a review of this length, I will limit my comments to the one character that interested me the most. Quinette Hardin is a young American woman from a rural Midwestern background caught in the middle of a bloody war between the Muslim-backed Sudanese government and black African insurgents. From the beginning I was impressed with the author's ability to depict a strong female character without resorting to the

My first Philip Caputo, and not my last! This is a broad view of wars, works of charity, geography, cultures, powers that crush and powers that propel. Characters are fully formed. The author's pace is steady. I did not get bored on any page. This is a terrific book to sit and talk about. I used my Google map a lot. Go to Africa with Philip.

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