The Little Karoo - Hardcover

Smith, Pauline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312047290 ISBN 13: 9780312047290

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

Synopsis

First published in 1925, this lyrical collection of stories captures the landscape and changing world of the Afrikaners of South Africa

About this title

About the Author:

Milton Hindus, a founding member of the Brandeis University faculty, served as the Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities until his retirement. He is the author of Irving Babbitt, Literature and the Democratic Culture and has contributed to leading periodicals throughout the world.

From Publishers Weekly:

With the simplicity of folk tales, the powerful lilt of ballads, the sharpness of woodcuts, these poignant short stories pierce the psychological armor of the Boers who make up South Africa's dominant minority. First published in 1925, the stories still ring true in their empathetic yet clear-eyed portrayal of a stern, obstinate tribe of white settlers at war with an unforgiving God. In "The Miller," a tubercular farmer whose sadistic torments have turned his wife into "a nervous hen" dies in her arms, forgiven by his tearful mate. In "The Sisters," a Boer's love of his land drives him to sellliterally? yup his daughter, who endures her fate stoiccally. Women in these 10 tales submit to husbands' or fathers' iron wills. "Ludovitje," the only story that touches directly on race relations, unites a dying boy and his "Kaffir" servant in a sort of evangelical mysticism. Smith, an English-born writer who grew up in the Little Karoo--the vast red plain of old Cape Colony--captures her neighbors in strongly cadenced prose.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0312047290
• ISBN 13: 9780312047290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Driver Dorothy