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This is the South African novelist's most direct indictment of apartheid yet. It takes the form of a letter-diary from Mrs. Curren, a former classics professor dying of cancer, to her daughter in America. She details a series of strange events that turn her protected middle-class life upside down. A homeless alcoholic appears at her door, eventually becoming her companion and confessor. Her liberal sentiments and her very humanity are tested as she experiences directly the horrors of apartheid. She comes to recognize South Africa as a country in which the rigidity of both sides has led to barbarism and to acknowledge her complic
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release date: 1 September 1998
ISBN-10 : 0140275657 | ISBN-13: 9780140275650
Release date: 1 September 1998
ISBN-10 : 0140275657 | ISBN-13: 9780140275650
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