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The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith

Basically a girl loses her fiance on their wedding day, she gets stranded in the nambian desertin africa and must survive. She manages, and then finds new love. Then the story comes to a usual Smith ending.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story -
Exploring into the wild Yes
Plotlets: - stranded - shipwreck
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena

Setting
Africa Yes
Part of Africa: - Black Africa
Desert? Yes
Desert: - dying of thirst, sunburn

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
Explicit sex in book? Yes
Unusual forms of death - poisoning - dropped from large heights - flamed - drowned - perforation--bullets - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - mostly dialog
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