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A collection of ten connected short stories portrays the experiences of Frieda Shenton and her family and depicts the problems of life in South Africa
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About the Author
ZOE WICOMB was born in 1948 and raised in Namaquland, South Africa. After 20 years voluntary exile, she returned to South Africa in 1991 to teach at the University of the Western Cape. She currently lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
MARCIA WRIGHT is professor of history at Columbia University and a member of the executive committee for the Women Writing Africa series.
CAROL SICHERMAN is professor emerita of English at Lehman College, CUNY.
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"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a part with Nadine Gordimer and J.M.Coetzee." -- The Wall Street Journal
"[Wicomb]is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography ..." -- Bharati Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0394753097
- ISBN 13 9780394753096
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages185
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