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