Author: Julienne Du Toit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992235161
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Moving to the Platteland
Author: Julienne Du Toit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992235161
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992235161
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Twin
Author: Gerbrand Bakker
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459608275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?'The Twin' is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, 'the Twin' is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459608275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?'The Twin' is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, 'the Twin' is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Impostor
Author: Damon Galgut
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555849172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An “unsettling and engaging” novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Promise (The Telegraph). Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother’s dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days. Adam does not remember him at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. “An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir” (Publishers Weekly) by “a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee”, The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian, UK).
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555849172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An “unsettling and engaging” novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Promise (The Telegraph). Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother’s dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days. Adam does not remember him at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. “An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir” (Publishers Weekly) by “a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee”, The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian, UK).
Debates
Author: South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
Vols. 1- cover debates of the House of the 1st- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
Vols. 1- cover debates of the House of the 1st- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
Season of Hope
Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Offers an insight into the circumstances under which the policies were developed, implemented and reviewed, as well as a study of the outcomes. This book addresses questions such as: How could an organisation with no previous experience of governing accomplish a peaceful transition to democracy? How did they do it and where are they going?
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Offers an insight into the circumstances under which the policies were developed, implemented and reviewed, as well as a study of the outcomes. This book addresses questions such as: How could an organisation with no previous experience of governing accomplish a peaceful transition to democracy? How did they do it and where are they going?
Cherry Blossom and Paper Planes
Author: Jef Aerts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782505617
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A touching story of resilient friendship and the power of nature from an multi-prize-winning author, with a sprinkling of magic.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782505617
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A touching story of resilient friendship and the power of nature from an multi-prize-winning author, with a sprinkling of magic.
My Children! My Africa! (TCG Edition)
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366915
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366915
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher.
The Innocence of Roast Chicken
Author: Jo-Anne Richards
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770106928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Innocence of Roast Chicken focuses on an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape and their idyllic life on their grandparents’ farm, seen through the eyes of the little girl, Kate, and the subtle web of relationships that is shattered by a horrifying incident in the mid-1960s. Scenes from Kate’s early life are juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when Kate, now married to Joe, a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria that is gripping the nation. Her despair, both with her marriage and with the national situation, resolutely returns to a brutal incident one Christmas day when Kate was thrust into an awareness of what lay beneath her blissful childhood. Beautifully constructed, The Innocence of Roast Chicken is painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770106928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Innocence of Roast Chicken focuses on an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape and their idyllic life on their grandparents’ farm, seen through the eyes of the little girl, Kate, and the subtle web of relationships that is shattered by a horrifying incident in the mid-1960s. Scenes from Kate’s early life are juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when Kate, now married to Joe, a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria that is gripping the nation. Her despair, both with her marriage and with the national situation, resolutely returns to a brutal incident one Christmas day when Kate was thrust into an awareness of what lay beneath her blissful childhood. Beautifully constructed, The Innocence of Roast Chicken is painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing.
Coast to Coast
Author: Chris Marais
Publisher: Struik
ISBN: 9781770074828
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Authors Chris Marais and Julienne Du Toit travelled the 3000-odd kilometre coastline of South Africa in the spring of 2005. They stayed there for over two months, travelling the entire course from Alexander Bay to Kosi Bay. 'Coast to Coast' celebrates the seaside South Africa they found.
Publisher: Struik
ISBN: 9781770074828
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Authors Chris Marais and Julienne Du Toit travelled the 3000-odd kilometre coastline of South Africa in the spring of 2005. They stayed there for over two months, travelling the entire course from Alexander Bay to Kosi Bay. 'Coast to Coast' celebrates the seaside South Africa they found.
We Cry for Our Land
Author: Wendy Davies
Publisher: Oxfam Pub
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: Oxfam Pub
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description