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Fiela S Child
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-09
Fiela S Child written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09 with Fiction categories.
Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him. "Everything a novel can be: convincing, thought-provoking, upsetting, unforgettable, and timeless."—Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman "Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today."—Francis Levy, New York Times Book Review "A powerful creation of time and place with dark threads of destiny and oppression and its roots in the almost Biblical soil of a storyteller's art."—Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian "The characters in the novel live and breathe; and the landscape is so brightly painted that the trees, birds, elephants, and rivers of old South Africa are characters themselves. A book not to miss."—Kirkus Reviews
Fiela S Child
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1990
Fiela S Child written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
Dreamforest
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2012-10-02
Dreamforest written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Fiction categories.
Karoliena Kapp is a child of the forest, born into a community of woodcutters. She is given the advantage of a good education, but it serves only to heighten her growing realisation that, because of the harsh injustices of poverty, there is little hope for the woodcutters.The day after her marriage to Johannes, himself of woodcutter stock, she realises that she has made the wrong choice. She may have escaped from the poverty of the forest, but she has exchanged her freedom for a cage. Alone and afraid, she leaves her husband and takes the road back to the forest.
Azalea Heights
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Author : Rajat Narula
language : en
Publisher: Creators Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-26
Azalea Heights written by Rajat Narula and has been published by Creators Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-26 with Fiction categories.
Twenty-two students of Winston Elementary School are being held hostage. The gunmen are demanding the release of ISIS leaders held in Iraq. A rescue attempt by the FBI could get the children killed. Altaf Khan, a 48-year-old Pakistani American, may be able to help them infiltrate the terrorists’ network. However, one of the captors is his son, Zain. Azalea Heights is a clash-of-cultures story of a diverse cast of characters wanting to make a fresh start. Naina is recently divorced and is learning to live alone. Rohan is a small-time restaurateur with big dreams. Altaf, a proud American citizen, is struggling with the radicalization of his teenage son. Gerard is a retired Iraq veteran fighting with his inner demons and legacy of the war. When they move to a new development called Azalea Heights, their paths inevitably cross and result in a chain of events that upend their lives. Azalea Heights captures the escalating tensions within the neighborhood, but also recognizes the American spirit, when people with disparate ideologies, beliefs, and politics come together in a moment of crisis. Azalea Heights deals with multiple layers of racism in American society. It delves into the protagonists’ psyches, their hopes, fears, and biases, the shocking secrets they keep, and the terrible choices they make. In the end, it boils down to a single principle: doing the right thing, regardless of consequences. Fans of Little Fires Everywhere, An American Marriage, and There There will enjoy this riveting tale of intercultural conflict in these unsettling times when prejudices have come to be accepted as normal.
Driftwood
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2012-10-02
Driftwood written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Fiction categories.
Early in the twentieth century a four-year-old boy is washed ashore like a piece of driftwood at Rietfontein Bay in the Southern Cape. Plucked from amongst the drowned bodies and the wreckage of the ship which floundered on the rocky reefs, the child is adopted by Willem and Sanna Swart and is given the name Moses. More than fifty years later, Moses spends his days taking care of a flock of sheep, continually haunted by a sense of displacement and a yearning to know his real identity. When he goes to work as a gardener for the elderly Lord and Lady de Saumarez he begins for the first time to feel a sense of belonging, and the missing pieces of his life start to unravel. Dalene Matthee, in this her final work, has created a moving tale of identity lost and found.
There Goes English Teacher
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Author : Karin Cronje
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2018-10-19
There Goes English Teacher written by Karin Cronje and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On a considered whim writer Karin Cronje packs up her life and flies across the world to teach English in a small Korean village. The result is a poignant, heart-achingly funny, scandalous, and deeply moving account of incomprehension, awe, dislocation, belonging, the sticky business of identity and the loss of it, sanity, and the loss of that. Characters like Dae-ho, her guru man, who reminds her to breathe; dazzling Mae and her bar, Goldfinger; Leona with her rattle snake tongue, and all the others she cant understand are now the people in her life. Back home is her son who has fallen in with a suspect character and her friends who now seem like dung beetles each rolling their own ball of muck. They, together with the tip of the African continent, are about to disappear into the sea. She has only herself. And that sure as hell feels inadequate. With her inimitable voice Karin Cronje shocks and delights as she digs deeply into the full catastrophe of being human.
The Mulberry Forest
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Mulberry Forest written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Knysna (South Africa) categories.
Pieternella Daughter Of Eva
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2012-10-02
Pieternella Daughter Of Eva written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Fiction categories.
Pieternella, Daughter of Eva opens in the early days of the first white settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, beneath the shadow of Table Mountain, with the Dutch East India Company clinging precariously to a little piece of land - Robben Island - in Table Bay. Eva was one of the first interpreters and intermediaries between her Goringhaicona tribe and the Dutch, and Pieternella's father was Pieter van Meerhoff, the Company surgeon who was murdered by slave dealers in Madagascar. Pieternella and her siblings were among the first mixed-race children born at the Cape and their lives are a manifestation of a sentiment often expressed by Matthee in this novel - that life can consist of heaven and hell rolled up together in one bundle. After her mother's sudden and untimely death, the orphaned Pieternella and her brother Salomon are sent to the hurricane- and drought-afflicted Mauritius, a penal colony at the time, to work as 'slaves' to foster parents. Pieternella barely survives the exhausting sea voyage and a premature marriage becomes her salvation. Pieternella remains attached to the memory of her mother and is full of turbulent emotions about how she is both brown and white in the same body. What will her children look like? Is she really only half-human, as she has so scornfully been told? Will she ever come to terms with who she is and find the peace and comfort she yearns for? Through this remarkable true story, which took three years of intensive research into old journals, diaries and historical records, Matthee has resurrected and breathed new life into the early history of the Cape, and Robben Island and Mauritius - the isles of banishment. She skilfully balances the elements of Pieternella's life: love and shame for her mother, the impersonal might of the Company versus one individual, and a slave who is freer than a free woman. She allows the historically misunderstood Eva finally to come into her own through the eyes of her clever, sensitive daughter.
Fiela S Child
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1992-09-01
Fiela S Child written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him. Everything a novel can be: convincing, thought-provoking, upsetting, unforgettable, and timeless.--Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today.--Francis Levy, New York Times Book Review A powerful creation of time and place with dark threads of destiny and oppression and its roots in the almost Biblical soil of a storyteller's art.--Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian The characters in the novel live and breathe; and the landscape is so brightly painted that the trees, birds, elephants, and rivers of old South Africa are characters themselves. A book not to miss.--Kirkus Reviews
Fiela S Kind
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Author : Dalene Matthee
language : nl
Publisher: Groot Goudriaan, De
Release Date : 2013-12-04
Fiela S Kind written by Dalene Matthee and has been published by Groot Goudriaan, De this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-04 with Fiction categories.
In Afrika dwaalt een kind te ver het bos in. Hij komt niet terug. Na dagen van koortsachtig zoeken, wordt de hoop opgegeven hem ooit nog terug te vinden. Negen jaar later treffen twee ambtenaren, bezig met een volkstelling, aan de andere kant van het grote Knysnawoud een blank jongetje aan, Benjamin. Sinds zijn derde jaar wordt hij opgevoed door Fiela. Zij verzet zich tot het uiterste, maar kan niet verhinderen dat een blanke vrouw Benjamin opeist als haar zoontje.