Summary
The funny, sad, exotic, colourful world of the Cape Coloureds as told through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl.‘My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother, don’t live here any more. People say she went on the Kimberley…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552997577 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552997579 |
| Author: | Pamela Jooste |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1999 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 22mm |
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Immensely moving and readable
Immensely moving and readable * The Times *Moving and funny…A brave and memorable debut * Observer *I could hardly put this book down * Cape Times *Tough, smart and vulnerable … emblematic of an entire people * Independent *Highly readable, sensitive and intensely moving … a fine achievement * Mail and Guardian, South Africa *
About The Author
Pamela Jooste
Pamela Jooste was born in Cape Town, where she still lives. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels- Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places, People Like Ourselves and Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, her first novel, which won the Commonwealth Best First Book Award for the African Region; the Samlam Literary Award, and the Book Data South African Booksellers’ Choice Award.
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