Beyond the Rivers, Across the Seas

Beyond the Rivers, Across the Seas can stand on the category of books like Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist and Nicolas Sparks' The Notebook, but it offers more, in so far as for the first book by the Brazilian writer the reader follows the trip of a young shepherd in quest of a treasure, in the desert region comprised between Andalusia, Spain, Tangier, Algeria, and the Pyramids of Egypt. The Spanish boy goes stage after stage, and learns tremendous truths about his own self, to finally discover that the treasure is at the place he had started his trip. The reader discovers that our dreams come true because we believe in them and work on their realization. In The Notebook by the American writer, the reader is put in front of one of the greatest proof of love. The hero and the heroine, though from different backgrounds, stand against all odds, to defend their love. Their children and grandchildren cannot and could never understand the passionate love deeply buried in their hearts after social barriers were overwhelmed. Beyond the Rivers, Across the Seas, as for it, defies the social conventions, it opens the doors to love, journeys across the most beautiful landscapes of rivers, streams, lakes and seas. It takes the reader to the most beautiful places on earth, where the hero, an African Prince and the heroine, a French Countess, try to escape a dishonored fianc .

Ousmane Doumbia was born in July 1972 in Diourbel, central part of Senegal, West Africa. He has earned a Master’s Degree in English/Comparative Literature at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. He has worked as a French/English Translator and Interpreter; accepted a contract as a Human Resource Manager in a Gold Mine, in the Eastern part of his home country. Mr. Doumbia worked as a Case Analyst at the US Department of Labor, in Chicago. In Addition to Beyond the Rivers, Across the Seas, he has published a poetry book called When Love Whispered to my Soul in April 2010. Ousmane Doumbia lives at the North Side of Chicago, Illinois with his wife since January 2010.