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Postcards from South Africa (Paperback)
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Postcards from South Africa (Paperback)
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Loot Price R153
Discovery Miles 1 530
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"I left my soul at the foot of Table Mountain. I want it back." In
this powerful, poignant and distinctively South African collection
of short stories, Rayda Jacobs - leaving suddenly for Canada at the
age of 21, to return for good only 27 years later - seeks to
understand the deep marks that South Africa has left upon her. The
character of Sabah runs like a rich thread through the collection,
as Jacobs takes the reader on an intense, semi-autobiographical
journey which explores childhood, exile after being found in
possession of a white card, and return to an altered South Africa
in 1995. Other stories reveal South Africans tellingly to each
other - the elderly woman frightened by the young man at the garden
gate, the shack-dwelling family ruthlessly compromised by the
housing "agent", the muslim daughter who must help with the ritual
washing of her mother's body for burial. Frequently funny, often
serious, always deceptively simple - these "postcards" are the
compassionate yet challenging creation of a gifted storyteller.
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