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Agaat [electronic resource] / Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns.

Van Niekerk, Marlene. (Author). Heyns, Michiel. (Added Author).

Summary:

Focuses on the relationship between Milla, an aging white female farmer in South Africa, and Agaat, her black maidservant, in a story set near the end of apartheid.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780982569184 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0982569181 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 581 p.)
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: Portland, Or. : Tin House Books ; 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in English in South Africa by Jonathan Ball Publishers under the title The way of the women (2006).
Language Note:
Translated from the Afrikaans.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Women farmers > South Africa > Fiction.
Women household employees > South Africa > Fiction.
South Africa > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre: Electronic books.


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