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Agaat

Author : Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1951142217
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Agaat written by Marlene Van Niekerk and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting.” —Toni Morrison In 1940s apartheid South Africa, Milla de Wet discovers a child abandoned in the fields of her family farm. Ignoring the warnings of friends and family, Milla brings the girl, Agaat, into her home. But the kindness is fleeting, as Milla makes Agaat her maidservant and, later, a nanny for her son. At turns cruel and tender, this relationship between a wealthy white woman and her Black maidservant is constantly fraught and shaped by a rigid social order. Decades later, Milla is confined to her bed with ALS, and is quickly losing her ability to communicate. Her family has fallen apart, her country is on the brink of change, and all she has left are her memories—and a reckoning with the only person who remains by her side: Agaat. In complex and devastating ways, the power shifts between the two women, mirroring the historic upheavals happening around them and revealing a shared lifetime of hopes, sacrifices, and control. Hailed as an international masterpiece, Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat is a haunting and deeply layered saga of resilience, loyalty, betrayal, and how the passage of time cannot heal all wounds.

The Way Of The Women

Author : Marlene van Niekerk
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 034914169X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Way Of The Women written by Marlene van Niekerk and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly paralysing illness, confined to her bed, struggles to make herself heard by her maidservant and now nurse, Agaat. Contrary, controlling, proud, secretly affectionate, the two women, servant and mistress, are more than matched. Life for white farmers like Milla in the South Africa of the 1950s was full of promise - newly married, her future held the thrilling challenges of creating her own farm and perhaps one day raising children. Forty years later, the world Milla knew is as if seen in a mirror, and all she has left are memories and diaries. As death draws near, she looks back on good intentions and soured dreams, on a brutal marriage and a longed-for only son scarred by his parents' battles, and on a lifetime's tug-of-war with Agaat. As Milla's old white world recedes, in the new South Africa her guardian's is ever more filled with the prospect of freedom. Marlene Van Niekerk's is a stunning new literary voice from South Africa, to compare to J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.

Agaat

Author : Marlene VanNiekerk
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458760391
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Agaat written by Marlene VanNiekerk and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise - young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla's family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore

Author : John H. Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore written by John H. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

MEDEDEELINGEN

Author : Wageningen (Netherlands) LANDBOUWHOOGESCHOOL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book MEDEDEELINGEN written by Wageningen (Netherlands) LANDBOUWHOOGESCHOOL and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and Spirituality in South Africa

Author : Duncan Brown
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Spirituality in South Africa written by Duncan Brown and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Religion and spirituality are closely woven into the fabric of South African public and private life - though not always seamlessly or in matching thread. This book is concerned with the role of religion and spirituality in individual identity and belief, as well as in the public spheres of governance and policy-making. It brings together significant researchers from various disciplinary perspectives, ranging from law and politics to theology, literature and media studies, with the aim of investigating new critical approaches to religion and spirituality, particularly in the postcolony/South. The authors engage seriously with the challenge of accounting for the range and power of religious and spiritual discourses that run through individual and communal identification. This volume provides stimulation for further thought and work in this crucial area of South African, and postcolonial, study and life"--Cover.

The Way Of The Women

Author : Marlene van Niekerk
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 034914169X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Way Of The Women written by Marlene van Niekerk and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly paralysing illness, confined to her bed, struggles to make herself heard by her maidservant and now nurse, Agaat. Contrary, controlling, proud, secretly affectionate, the two women, servant and mistress, are more than matched. Life for white farmers like Milla in the South Africa of the 1950s was full of promise - newly married, her future held the thrilling challenges of creating her own farm and perhaps one day raising children. Forty years later, the world Milla knew is as if seen in a mirror, and all she has left are memories and diaries. As death draws near, she looks back on good intentions and soured dreams, on a brutal marriage and a longed-for only son scarred by his parents' battles, and on a lifetime's tug-of-war with Agaat. As Milla's old white world recedes, in the new South Africa her guardian's is ever more filled with the prospect of freedom. Marlene Van Niekerk's is a stunning new literary voice from South Africa, to compare to J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.

Agaat

Author : Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0982569181
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Agaat written by Marlene Van Niekerk and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was immediately mesmerized...Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting." --Toni Morrison Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise—young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla’s family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

Triomf

Author : Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468302221
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Triomf written by Marlene Van Niekerk and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post). This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black spot,” they await with trepidation their country’s first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah’s Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. “South Africa as you’ve never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever.” —Gillian Slovo, author of Ten Days “A world-class tragicomic novel, the kind of book that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor.” —The New York Times Book Review

Annual Reports of the Secretary of War

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Reports of the Secretary of War written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fred de Vries Interviews

Author : Fred de Vries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fred de Vries Interviews written by Fred de Vries and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the following interviewees with photos: Abdullah Ibrahim, jazz musician; Gabeba Baderoon, wordsmith; Vusi Beauchamp, comic shocker; Nikiwe Bikitsha, radio presenter; Bok van Blerk, singer; Jeanetta Blignaut, art agent; Chris Chameleon, pop boy; Kudzanai Chiurai, afro pop-artist; Toast Coetzer, lyricist; and, Fokofpolisiekar, taalrockers.

Report of the United States Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War

Author : United States. Philippine Commission (1900-1916)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the United States Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War written by United States. Philippine Commission (1900-1916) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Directory of Lands

Author : Philippines. Bureau of Lands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Directory of Lands written by Philippines. Bureau of Lands and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bundu

Author : Chris Barnard
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415202133
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Bundu written by Chris Barnard and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens, then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly determined to serve. But the inundation soon becomes too much for them, and there is no help from outside. Within the small community of outcasts a plan takes shape that is as outrageous as it is inspired. The illegal adventure that follows is a humanitarian act of heroic proportions, yet unsung in the greater world. And in its wake unanswered questions remain: what is it that lies just beyond our reach; why can we not take the final step towards each other? Bundu is about the people and the animals of Africa at the height of their beauty and the depth of their despair. It is a love story and a meditation on the mystery of our powers and the limitations that we share with our brothers, the animals.

The Snow Sleeper

Author : Marlene van Niekerk
Publisher : Human & Rosseau
ISBN 13 : 9780798179256
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Snow Sleeper written by Marlene van Niekerk and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Snow Sleeper, the art and meaning of storytelling is illuminated in four magically interwoven tales of friendship. In each, a narrator's narrow vision is gradually broadened and transformed into piercing self-knowledge.

Genetic Instabilities and Neurological Diseases

Author : Robert D. Wells
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080463770
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Genetic Instabilities and Neurological Diseases written by Robert D. Wells and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetic Instabilities and Neurological Diseases covers DNA repeat instability and neurological disorders, covering molecular mechanisms of repeat expansion, pathogenic mechanisms, clinical phenotype, parental gender effects, genotype-phenotype correlation, and diagnostic applications of the molecular data. This updated edition provides updates of these repeat expansion mutations, including the addition of many new chapters, and old chapters rewritten as extensions of the previous edition. This book is an invaluable reference source for neuroscientists, geneticists, neurologists, molecular biologists, genetic counsellors and students. Contributions by most of the principal research teams in the area, edited by world-renowned leaders Lays the background for future investigations on related diseases

Country of My Skull

Author : Antjie Krog
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307420507
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Country of My Skull written by Antjie Krog and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation of the races were thrown out. The country, which had been carved into a crazy quilt that reserved the most prosperous areas for whites and the most desolate and backward for blacks, was reunited. The dreaded and dangerous security force, which for years had systematically tortured, spied upon, and harassed people of color and their white supporters, was dismantled. But how could this country--one of spectacular beauty and promise--come to terms with its ugly past? How could its people, whom the oppressive white government had pitted against one another, live side by side as friends and neighbors? To begin the healing process, Nelson Mandela created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, headed by the renowned cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Established in 1995, the commission faced the awesome task of hearing the testimony of the victims of apartheid as well as the oppressors. Amnesty was granted to those who offered a full confession of any crimes associated with apartheid. Since the commission began its work, it has been the central player in a drama that has riveted the country. In this book, Antjie Krog, a South African journalist and poet who has covered the work of the commission, recounts the drama, the horrors, the wrenching personal stories of the victims and their families. Through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, from the appearance of Winnie Mandela to former South African president P. W. Botha's extraordinary courthouse press conference, this award-winning poet leads us on an amazing journey. Country of My Skull captures the complexity of the Truth Commission's work. The narrative is often traumatic, vivid, and provocative. Krog's powerful prose lures the reader actively and inventively through a mosaic of insights, impressions, and secret themes. This compelling tale is Antjie Krog's profound literary account of the mending of a country that was in colossal need of change.