South Africa | South Africa
Aug.16.2011
Corlie Roux’s farm life in South Africa is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh place where the heat can be so intense that the very raindrops sizzle. When her beloved father dies, she is left with a mother who is as devoted to her sons as she is cruel to her daughter....
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Aug.31.2010
When David Jedeikin's partner of three years becomes critically ill, the only way to save him is to volunteer as his living liver donor. But this ultimate act of sharing doesn't rescue their relationship, which ends soon after with the couple on opposite coasts.
Struggling to find perspective...
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Jul.29.2010
Non-partisan and hard-hitting, John Allen’s personal account of life in South Africa during the apartheid era will surprise many with its combination of intimate detail and grassroots insight. It contains revealing glimpses of the international media’s selective reporting and gives an insider’s...
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Jan.26.2010
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"A stellar thriller" - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Noir as hardboiled as it gets." - Library Journal (Starred Review)
"An intricate Robert Altman–like narrative." - Kirkus Reviews
"A prime destination for readers who like to...
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Nov.19.2009
Covering the length and breadth of the country, Primary Coloured, gives a unique insight into the current state of the nation, the role of power, and a behind the scenes account of how election campaigns, Parliament, politics and money works in the new South Africa.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right...
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Nov.07.2009
In 1825, the newly appointed Superintendent of Police for the Cape Colony discovered a slave woman languishing in the Cape Town gaol. Sentenced to death on April 30 1823, Sila van den Kaap had not only survived, but also bore two children while in prison. What had she done to deserve death? And...
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Mar.14.2008
Rejoice Burning is based on real lives, people I knew and know, but the middle owes a lot to Uys Krige and the end to Robert Frost. It's theme, the weird separation of the worlds of people who live so closely together (African and European, settler and native) is an essential South African theme....
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Jan.18.2008
When Mavala Shikongo deserted them, the teachers at the boys' school in Goas weren't surprised. How could they be? She was too beautiful, too powerful, and too mysterious for their tiny, remote, and arid world. They knew only one essential fact about their departed colleague: she was a combat...
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Dec.14.2007
“Hello, Stranger-Friend” begins Maya Angelou's story about Thandi, a South African Ndebele girl, her mischievous brother, her beloved chicken, and the astonishing mural art produced by the women of her tribe. With never-before-seen photographs of the very private Ndebele women and their paintings,...
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