Fiela's Child

Informationen zum Autor Dalene Matthee , born in South Africa in 1938, is the author of a collection of short stories, Die Judasbok , and five novels, including Circles in a Forest and The Mulberry Forest . Klappentext A powerful novel of race and identity in South Africa that the New Statesman said was "everything a novel can be" Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dalene Matthee, Matthee Dalene
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.1986
• EAN: 9780226510835
• ISBN: 978-0-226-51083-5
• Pagine: 360
• Dimensioni: 134 mm x 205 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Phoenix Fiction Phoenix Fictio; Phoenix Fiction S.
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary