Agaat
of Marlene van Niekerk, Michiel Heyns (Translator)
Description
Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. Through flashbacks and diary entries, the reader learns about Milla's past. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of promise â young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her 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 of love and family loyalty. Winner of the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2007, Agaat was translated as The Way of the Women by Michiel Heyns, who received the Sol Plaatje Award for his translation.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 630 pages
- Publisher Tin House Books
- Publication Date April 27th 2010
- First Publication 10/30/06
- Language English
- ISBN 9780982503096
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
- Scenario ['South Africa']
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