The Cry of Winnie Mandela: A NovelA group of African women at a specific period in Southern Africa's history find their family life under pressure from capitalist modernity and apartheid. This is a deeply humane, sympathetic and generous book on the one hand but is unflinching in its honesty. Ndebele represents a rare breed of writer able to combine political awareness with a sensitivity towards context, language and characterization. The result is a gift offering to the present. This is one of the best books about women's sacrifices and contributions to the struggle against apartheid. |
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Page 41
... rituals of tea - making and tea - drinking turned into a science of etiquette . Sometimes she permits herself a painful indulgence in the discomforting thought that , in the few months before his departure for Scotland , her husband had ...
... rituals of tea - making and tea - drinking turned into a science of etiquette . Sometimes she permits herself a painful indulgence in the discomforting thought that , in the few months before his departure for Scotland , her husband had ...
Page 95
... rituals of civility . Of welcome . It's the brazen way of the township . Let's forgive them : you , the girl of Bizana , and I , the girl of Butha - Buthe , land of the flaming sekila . You remind me of them , the proteas . Forever ...
... rituals of civility . Of welcome . It's the brazen way of the township . Let's forgive them : you , the girl of Bizana , and I , the girl of Butha - Buthe , land of the flaming sekila . You remind me of them , the proteas . Forever ...
Page 118
... rituals of public terror ; millions of anti - personnel mines buried in the ground ; the church museum of skeletons in Rwanda ; the severed limbs of the people of Sierra Leone ; the nuclear bomb and Hiroshima ; the Israeli checkpoints ...
... rituals of public terror ; millions of anti - personnel mines buried in the ground ; the church museum of skeletons in Rwanda ; the severed limbs of the people of Sierra Leone ; the nuclear bomb and Hiroshima ; the Israeli checkpoints ...
Contents
Part | 1 |
The Second Descendant | 17 |
The Fourth Descendant | 36 |
Copyright | |
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