Nelson's Dream

Nelson's Dream

Reviewed by Chaojie Guan

    Nelson's Dream is written by J.M Newsome. The story back ground is in Kurupenda, the capital of Gomokure, a country in southern Africa. Our main character Nelson who retuns to his home in Kurupenda after 3 years in UK studying hotel management and he tired to help poor people. When Nelson visited Sector D, he meets Viki, a South African TV presenter. In the middle of the story, Nelson restored an old bus garage to turn it into a centre and people can learn
how to treat for AIDS/HIV also Nelson helped Mawadza family. It is a poor family after their mother passed and have 4 childen left. The eldest son Eddy gets a job at garage. The second son Daniel earns little money for his singing and  tried to keep his siblings together. The baby son Blessing and daughter Lily Anne get into a hospice, almost at the end Blessing will die by AIDS because his mother passed to him which is very sad. The story is around how they against a background of HIV/AIDS and government.

   In my this is a very good book because the story looks really real and I think there may be many similar story aound the world. It is a  good story to let people know more about the difference between your lfe and poor people's life. althought this is a very good book for people to read but I am not very interested because this not my type of book. I recommend the book for ESL students because it has Award-winning original fiction for learners and for language learner.