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Held - Portrait Of The Black Family (Paperback) Loot Price: R240
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Held - Portrait Of The Black Family (Paperback): Lulama Mali

Held - Portrait Of The Black Family (Paperback)

Lulama Mali

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To be released on 19 June 2026. You can pre-order this product. We should be able to ship between Friday, 26 Jun 2026 and Friday, 3 Jul 2026.

A memoir that spans three generations of one South African family, beginning in the erased neighbourhood of Wittebome in Cape Town and unfolding through the forced removals of apartheid, the intimacy of township life in Gugulethu, and the hidden truths that reshaped a child's understanding of love, belonging, and survival.

At its heart, this is the story of a girl raised by her grandparents in a house where politics co-existed with the daily rhythms of survival, and where abundance was measured not in wealth but in ritual, memory, and care. It is also the story of her mother, Nokhephu—first believed to have died in a tragic accident. The truth would turn her childhood upside down: the sister she thought she had was, in fact, her mother—and she had not died.

Both personal and political, it is a meditation on memory, silence, and inheritance. It asks: what does it mean to be held—by grief, by history, by love—and what happens when the truths that bind us finally come undone?

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Imprint: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release date: 19 June 2026
Authors: Lulama Mali
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-624-09671-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-624-09671-8
Barcode: 9780624096719

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