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Pamela Jooste - Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter - 9780552997577 - KSG0009442
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Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter

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Description for Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter Paperback. Shows the vivid and vigorous culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction, as seen through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past - and future - erupts. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. Good clean copy showing light shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition

'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 train to try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could get away with it even if ... Read more

Through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole exotic, vivid, vigorous culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past - and future - erupts. Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter is a powerful and moving tribute to a richly individual people.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552997577
SKU
KSG0009442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter
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

Goodreads reviews for Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter


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