Winner of The Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the
Walter Scott Prize Torn from his parents and tribe as a boy in the
1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at
the Missionary College in Canterbury to be a rural preacher in
Southern Africa’s Cape Colony. He is a brilliant success but
troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and
people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own
native pastors, and That Woman—seen once in a photograph and
never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and take her a
message that will break her heart. In this raw and compelling
story, Marguerite Poland employs her considerable experience as a
writer and specialist in South African languages to recreate the
polarised, duplicitous world of Victorian colonialism and its
betrayal of the very people it claimed to be enlightening.
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