![]() Hunting Midnight interweaves Bushman religion and mythology with Sephardic Judaism, while passing comment on French and British imperialism and nineteenth-century slavery, all this without once losing the pace of this epic narrative. Richard Zimler is nothing if not ambitious. But first, he cures young John of an addiction to opium, with which he was being treated after a suicide attempt. Midnight is convinced the antidote will only be found on the dark continent from which the terrible disease came. It is 1802 and Midnight has travelled to Europe to find a cure for smallpox, which has been introduced to Africa by colonial settlers. ![]() Before she expires, she drops Mantis into the blossom where the seed of all humanity was planted and the first Bushman born.īushman theology bursts into Zimler's narrative like the African sunshine with the arrival of its central character, Midnight, a tiny Bushman healer brought back from Britain's Cape Colony by the father of the narrator, John Zarco Stewart. ![]() At the edge of exhaustion, she finds a flower with a half-open white blossom growing out of the sea, searching for the sun. ![]()
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