Schoeman, Karel.

THIS LIFE /Translated from the Afrikaans by Else Silke. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2015/01/01 - 242

This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa’s most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman’s life. As a post-apartheid novel, This Life considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator’s tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator’s attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in the present. This Life is a powerful story partly of suffering and partly of reflection.

9780914671152

Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra


Fiction.
Afrikaans Fiction.
Afrikaners.
Afrikaans literature.
South Africa.
South Africa-Northern Cape.
Family farms.
Rural families.
Schoeman, Karel.
South African writer.
Else Silke Translater.
Else Silke (tr.)

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