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The Hidden Star
K. Sello Duiker
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Description for The Hidden Star
Paperback. Nolitye lives in a shack with her mother in a dusty township near Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones. One day, Nolitye finds a special stone that has the power to make people feel happy. Her mission is to gather the other pieces of the stone and reunite them, to stop darkness taking control of her world. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: YFH. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Nolitye lives in a shack with her mother Thembi in Phola, a dusty township on the edge of Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a bucket under her bed. She also has unusual powers: she can communicate with dogs. Nolitye has two close friends, Bheki, who is overweight, and the bespectacled Four Eyes, who join with her to resist the bullying from Rotten Nellie and her gang of Spoilers.One day, Nolitye finds a special stone that has the power to make people feel happy and laugh. Her mission from now on is ... Read more
Nolitye lives in a shack with her mother Thembi in Phola, a dusty township on the edge of Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a bucket under her bed. She also has unusual powers: she can communicate with dogs. Nolitye has two close friends, Bheki, who is overweight, and the bespectacled Four Eyes, who join with her to resist the bullying from Rotten Nellie and her gang of Spoilers.One day, Nolitye finds a special stone that has the power to make people feel happy and laugh. Her mission from now on is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cassava Republic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911115434
SKU
V9781911115434
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Ref
99-2
About K. Sello Duiker
By the time of his untimely death, K. Sello Duiker had published various short stories and two novels. Thirteen Cents was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for a first novel, while The Quiet Violence of Dreams won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Literature. Duiker was born and raised in Soweto. He attended Rhodes University, where he completed a ... Read more
Reviews for The Hidden Star
With evocatively descriptive prose and a trio of strong protagonists along with a secondary cast of unique personalities (such as Rotten Nellie, the class bully, or MaMtonga, the terrifying witch next door), Duiker beautifully captures a corner of South Africa (the main characters are black). With strong elements of magical realism, the novel is both charming and whimsical with several ... Read more