When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Müller hears of her grandmother’s impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she’d escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien’s Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother’s sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day. Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery.
Study for Obedience Author: Sarah Bernstein Published: 2023 Pages: 208 Prizes: Recent Prize Short List (Shortlist, Man Booker 2023) please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply […]
Author: Barbara Kingsolver Published: 2022 Pages: 560 Prizes: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2022 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restriction may apply Demon Copperhead is a modern retelling of David Copperfield […]
Washington Black Author: Esi Edugyan Project: Identity – racial Label: Recent Prize Winner (Man Booker 2018 Longlist) Year of publication: 2018 Pages: 432 Goodreads: Washington Black
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