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Ten years after leaving South Africa, the country of her birth and the place where her mother died, Eva van Rensburg returns to her dying father, a violent man whose terrible secret Eva has kept since she was a child.
Scribner
January 2006
Featuring: Eva van Rensburg
304 pages
ISBN: 0743272994
Hardcover
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In this beautiful first novel, Lisa Fugard paints a haunting
portrait of a family careering toward disaster. She vividly
describes the isolation of Eva's rebellious and lonely
English mother; the desperation of her Afrikaner father as
drought destroys his farm; the conflicts among the black
farmworkers as the younger generation questions the loyalty
and subservience of their elders; and the dangerous silence
of a young girl who witnesses too much. Like Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, Fugard has written a
profoundly moving family drama, subtly set against the
backdrop of a country in turmoil. She moves with
extraordinary agility between intimate and revelatory
domestic scenes and the fiercely challenging land. This is a
powerful story from a stunning new writer.
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