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While resting under a baobab tree, an African slave girl reflects upon the harsh and oppressive conditions of her life
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About the Author
Wilma Stockenström is one of the most important authors writing in Afrikaans. She has published 5 novels, 7 collections of poems, and one play. She received the Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 1977 and again in 1992. She was awarded Italy's Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1988 for The Expedition to the Baobab Tree. She has also had a successful career as an actress on stage and in film. She has been living in Cape Town since 1993. The author lives in Rapier, South Africa.
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Text: English, Afrikaans (translation)
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0571131123
- ISBN 13 9780571131129
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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thin 8vo. Softcover. 111pp. Good. A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to different masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree. Seller Inventory # 58091
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 112pp; perfectbound in printed card covers; 211 x 134 x 6 mm. Second edition in English of the author's captivating third novel, translated from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee. Originally published as That Kremetartekspedisie (1981: Human & Rousseau) with Coetzee's translation initially issued under the same imprint in 1983, the novel ultimately won the Grinzanc Cavour Prize in its Italian translation, Spedizione all Baobab (1988). Actress, poet, playwright, novelist, & translator, the amazing Wilma Stockenstrom remains one of the best-kept secrets in modern literature. Fading to spine & gutter as usual, with two small spots on the covers. Seller Inventory # 000697
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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
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blue card covers. Condition: Very Good-. Afrikaans (illustrator). First edition proof. Advance review copy Uncorrected proof.Translated into English from the Afrikaans as a labour of love by fellow African writer, J.M. Coetzee. 112 pp. Seller Inventory # 12345764
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