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This place I call home : stories by Hall, Priscilla;Vandermerwe, Meg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is This place I call home : stories about?

Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 4 Acknowledgements 7 Contents 8 A hijack story 10 The leopard hunter 14 Hottentot Venus girl 29 The holiday 35 Exile 59 A Sea Point widower speaks 72 The red earth 81 The dictionary 93 The mango tree 110 But this place is my home 126 Further Reading, Back Cover 147 Publisher:African Books Collective,Published:2010,ISBN:9781920397807,Related ISBN:9781920397029,Language:English,OCLC:712991336 Ten stories. Ten voices. Ten diverse perspectives of what home has meant to South Africans that countryís challenging history. In this thought provoking collection we are drawn into the lives of others. From an old widower who seems content on the outside but feels that his world is unravelling in the new South Africa, to an immigrant who has fled racial persecution in 1930s Europe and now finds himself on a barren sheep farm in the Karoo, to a Polokwane teacher confronted with the moral dilemma of xenophobic sentiments in her township, This Place I Call Home, leaves the reader deeply aware of local realities. Even though these powerful stories are often characterised by hardship and personal loss, one cannot help but emerge inspired by the tenacity of the human spi

Who reads This place I call home : stories?

Author

Hall, Priscilla;Vandermerwe, Meg

Publisher

African Books Collective;Modjaji Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781920397722

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction