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The magistrate of Gower / Claire Robertson.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.4.R637 M33 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Claire (Journalist)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judges--South Africa--Fiction.
- Judges.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : Umuzi, 2015.
- Summary:
- "When an illicit affair in British Ceylon comes to light in 1902, seventeen year-old Boer prisoner-of-war Henry Vos is disgraced. Months before, a short film made his face widely recognisable, but now he is shunned by Boer and Brit alike.Three decades later, Henry is the magistrate of Gower, a small inland town in the Union of South Africa, where he makes friends with young newcomer Adaira van Brugge. Adaira's story will start to echo Henry's when she takes a secret lover: Ira Gevint, a Jew who fled Europe only to wind up in a town ready to experiment with its own kind of persecution.As events threaten to unravel the careful life Henry has created for himself, desire surfaces alongside nationalist fervour in Claire Robertson's arresting new novel about the courage to choose love over fear."--Publisher's description: http://www.randomstruik.co.za/books/the-magistrate-of-gower/5882.
- ISBN:
- 9781415209325
- 1415209325
- 9781415207642
- 141520764X
- OCLC:
- 927376602
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