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A review by sbnich
An Impossible Return by Caroline Laurent
4.0
A slow start, whether due to the translation, the subject matter, or both, led to a beautiful, compelling story of colonialism, thievery, prejudice, and a strategic U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean. Set among the lush tropic landscape of Diego Garcia and then Mauritius in the late 1960s and 1970s, with flash forwards to the modern day, Laurent weaves a fictional romance and challenge amongst very real, and very horrible decisions made by Grest Britian, the United States, and Mauritius.
I had heard of the military base on Diego Garcia. I had not heard of how it came to be, or that its people were summarily lied to and expelled from the island with no skills, currency, or for 30 more years, citizenship in any country.
It's worth a read and a moment of silence for relatively recent history in which once again we let tragedy occur.
I had heard of the military base on Diego Garcia. I had not heard of how it came to be, or that its people were summarily lied to and expelled from the island with no skills, currency, or for 30 more years, citizenship in any country.
It's worth a read and a moment of silence for relatively recent history in which once again we let tragedy occur.