Rufin Ondoua

The Untold Story Rufin Ondoua

The Untold Story is a novel that portrays a special relationship between father and son. As the story opens, the young lad's grandmother is dying. While the rest of the family are celebrating the merriments of one of his brother's wedding, the young boy sits by his grandmother's bedside to listen to her stories for the last time. Listening to the tales of her own life and especially of his father, he learns more about his father's life from his grandmother than from his dad directly-she paints his life from his birth to how he came to marry his mother. Eventually, his grandmother dies. The many people gathered for the wedding become the mourners. After they are gone, father and son are left together in their grief, but this brings them closer and closer to each other. The father tells the son many stories about his life, explains how he became a teacher and an evangelist, and shares his experience through his career. He shares with his son the experiences of many places and many people he met and finally gives him the most important gift, the seven golden rules. This novel, The Untold Story, shares anecdotes of life in the villages of Africa spanning several generations of a family