Agaat
1st US Edition
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Set in apartheid South Africa,Agaatportrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. Through flashbacks and diary entries, the reader learns about Milla's past. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of promise young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene Van Niekerk creates a story of love and family loyalty. Winner of the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2007,Agaatwas translated asThe Way of the Womenby Michiel Heyns, who received the Sol Plaatje Award for his translation.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780982503096 |
Publisher: | Tin House Books |
Imprint: | Tin House |
Pub date: | 27 Apr 2010 |
Edition: | 1st US Edition |
DEWEY: | 839.3636 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 581 |
Weight: | 531g |
Height: | 215mm |
Width: | 161mm |
Spine width: | 32mm |