The Woman Next Door

Informationen zum Autor Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria, moving to South Africa with her family in 1992. She is the author of Bom Boy , published in South Africa in 2011. In 2012 she won the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author and was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist in the inaugural, pan-African Etisalat Fiction Prize. She lives in Johannesburg, where she writes and has her own architectural practice. Klappentext An amusing novel about getting old in which two neighbours, both widows in their eighties - one white and one black - are sworn enemies until they are forced into proximity. Set in South Africa, from the author of "Bom Boy". Zusammenfassung LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Read this funny, sharp, delicately woven story of two women’s complicated relationship set in post-apartheid South Africa. Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yewande Omotoso, Omotoso Yewande
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 02.02.2017
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9781784701376
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-137-6
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.8 cm
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