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The expedition to the baobab tree : a novel / Wilma Stockenstrom ; translated from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee.
Van Pelt Library PT6592.29.T6 K713 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stockenström, Wilma.
- Standardized Title:
- Kremetartekspedisie. English
- Language:
- Afrikaans
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved women--Fiction.
- Enslaved women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 129 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Archipelago Books, 2014.
- Summary:
- "In J.M.Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerfully symbolic story in the voice of a slave that explores the depths of imagination, isolation, fear, and love. A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to various masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781935744924
- 1935744925
- OCLC:
- 846889368
- Online:
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