A review by bigpaw
A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory by Jamal Mahjoub

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful and informative and disheartening. This book is not optimistic about the future, but it taught me a lot about an area of the world that I know virtually nothing about. The book winds through timelines like the river, shifting back and forth from 1800s to 1980s to present day. The nature of these jumps between eras made it somewhat difficult to track details about the development of Sudan from the 1800s to present. Despite this, the book painted an overall picture of the region.