Setting each of these seven stories in a different decade of the
Apartheid or post-Apartheid eras, Naidoo (The Other Side of Truth,
2001, etc.) offers glimpses of Apartheid's effects on body and
spirit, as well as the underlying integrity-in both the oppressed
majority and the oppressing minority-that has allowed South Africa
to make its transition without the widely expected bloodbath. Her
main characters are all children, white, Colored, Indian, or
African. Between "The Dare: 1948," in which Veronica loses her
respect, and therefore fear, of a brutish Boer neighbor when she
sees him caning a child, and "Out of Bounds: 2000," about a refugee
from floods in Mozambique and a white child from a walled community
working on a task together, instances of subtle and overt racism
test and change a cast constructed to represent South Africa's
future-a bright future, in this passionate, perceptive author's
view. (Short stories. 10-13) (Kirkus Reviews)
A collection of short stories - four previously published and three new - linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal dilemmas. All are set in South Africa, first under apartheid and then after the first democratic elections. They cover the period from 1950 to 2000 and reflect the lives of a range of young people, black and white, living in what was for many years seen as the world's most openly racist society.
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