This place I call home : stories / Meg Vandermerwe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vandermerwe, Meg, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African fiction (English).

Home in literature--Fiction.

Home in literature.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

144 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2010.

Summary:

Ten stories. Ten voices. Ten diverse perspectives of what home has meant to South Africans that country s challenging history. In this thought provoking collection we are drawn into the lives of others. From an old widower who seems content on the outside but feels that his world is unravelling in the new South Africa, to an immigrant who has fled racial persecution in 1930s Europe and now finds himself on a barren sheep farm in the Karoo, to a Polokwane teacher confronted with the moral dilemma of xenophobic sentiments in her township, This Place I Call Home, leaves the reader deeply aware of local realities. Even though these powerful stories are often characterised by hardship and personal loss, one cannot help but emerge inspired by the tenacity of the human spirit and the resilience of South African people.

Contents:

A hijack story

The leopard hunter

Hottentot Venus girl

The holiday

Exile

A Sea Point widower speaks

The red earth

The dictionary

The mango tree

But this place is my home.

ISBN:

9781920397029

1920397027

OCLC:

613435643

Publisher Number:

99942585088