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This place I call home : stories / by Meg Vandermerwe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vandermerwe, Meg.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home in literature.
- South African fiction--21st century.
- South African fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 unraveling in the new South Africa, to an immigrant who has fled racial persecution in 1930's 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063557
- 9781283063555
- 1283063557
- 9781920397807
- 1920397809
- 9781920397722
- 1920397728
- 9781920397173
- 1920397175
- OCLC:
- 830165107
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