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Agaat / Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780982503096
- ISBN: 0982503091
- Physical Description: x, 581 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: Portland, Or. : Tin House Books ; 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First published in English in South Africa by Jonathan Ball Publishers under the title The way of the women (2006). |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Afrikaans. |
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| Subject: | Women farmers > South Africa > Fiction. Women household employees > South Africa > Fiction. South Africa > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfield Library | F/VAN NIEKERK PBK (Text) | 34029119347846 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Minor Memorial Library - Roxbury | FIC VAN (Text) | 33630118052724 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC VANNIEKERK, M (Text) | 34005118204360 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Agaat
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Summary
Agaat
Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise--young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side.By the 1990s, Milla's 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 about love and loyalty.
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