The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa

Auteurs

• Maggie Messitt

Paramètres

• 240 pages
• 9 heures de lecture

• Afrique
• Biographies et réflexions
• Journalisme et Publication
• Nonfiction
• République d'Afrique du Sud

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The Rainy Season, a work of engaging literary journalism, introduces readers to the remote bushveld community of Rooiboklaagte and opens a window into the complicated reality of daily life in South Africa. It tells the stories of three generations in the Rainbow Nation one decade after its first democratic elections. This multi-threaded narrative follows Regina, a tapestry weaver in her sixties, standing at the crossroads where her Catholic faith and the AIDS pandemic crash; Thoko, a middle-aged sangoma (traditional healer) taking steps to turn her shebeen into a fully licensed tavern; and Dankie, a young man taking his matriculation exams, coming of age as one of Mandela's Children, the first academic class educated entirely under democratic governance.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2015
• Reliure: (souple)