#1 NY Times best seller. "Beautifully crafted moving and candid" (Scott Turow)
While going through its journeys I could almost feel it is myself traveling through lands and across oceans. Splendid self-revealing and captivating tale of two continents, of two races, of two families, of two cultures and yet one world, one family, one single human race.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Barack has a charming style and a keen eye for the detail, knows how to use his words and events and where and when to use them more effectively.
He takes it easy in telling remarkable achievements of his father and family and is also at ease, to uncover unhesitatingly the unpleasant and unseemly events and personalities in his extensive and varied family.
His candor is just as transparent and discernible in the book as we have recently observed in his speeches during Presidential campaign and how he handled the stones thrown at him like those of being a Muslim, aligning with Rev. J. Wright, being friends with ex-terrorists etc. etc.
I am neither White nor Black and grew up with the concept of two words together negro/slave as if they are inseparable (habashi Ghulam, in Urdu), I am ashamed to admit as I thought of Africa, a land of habashi peoples who enjoy cannibalism, who are uncultured, beastly (wahshi darinday), although felt less so after coming to America. What an attitude I have had.
After reading this book for the first time I am feeling the pain of their side. They are human beings and have the same feelings and sensitivities that you and I have. Muslims today, in the post 9/11 world here struggling to find a comfortable position for themselves in the light of the negative image that has been crafted by media. I am more perceptive of this. I do not have to remind you of or explain to you about what I am trying to say because I think you can understand it too.
And I ponder over the melanin pigment, facial features and such characteristics within the human race. What do they mean to us and what do they mean to the Creator who so eloquently placed before us in a nutshell how He evaluates us:
"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of male and a female and made you into tribes that ye may know each other VERILY THE MOST HONORED OF YOU IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH IS (he who is) THE MOST RIGHTEOUS OF YOU....." (S. Hujuraat 49th, verse # 13.
and also:
"Among His signs is the creation of heavens and earth and the variations in your languages AND YOUR COLORS, verily in that are signs for those who know." (S. Rum, 30th, verse #22)
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I am right now in travel and enjoying this book.
He is`a very deep and sensitive man....
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