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Agaat : a Novel by Marlene Van Niekerk, Michiel Heyns, Mary Gaitskill is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Agaat : a Novel about?
"I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting." —Toni MorrisonIn the waning days of the South African apartheid, Milla, an elderly white woman, is silenced by a creeping paralysis. As she struggles to communicate with her maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat, the complicated history of their relationship is revealed.Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of promise. Young and newly married, Milla carved her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside. She earned the respect of the male farmers in her community and raised a son. But forty years later all she has left are memories and the proud, contrary Agaat. With punishing precision, yet infinite tenderness, Agaat performs her duties, balancing anger with loyalty. As Milla's white world and its certainties recede and Agaat faces the prospect of freedom, the shift of power between them mirrors the historic changes happening around them. Marlene van...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Marlene Van Niekerk, Michiel Heyns, Mary Gaitskill
- Publisher
- Tin House Books ; Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780982503096
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Others
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