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| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 13,1 x 19,7 x 1,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 178 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1786890003 |
| EAN | 9781786890009 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78689000UA |
A powerful and heartbreaking memoir of a childhood in South Africa, and a story of a bond between two sisters, in life and beyond death
This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her.
Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine's death a matter of chance, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence?
Rezension:
A powerful memoir from an acclaimed novelist reveals a past of privilege, violence and possibly murder . . . This many-layered memoir, rich in texture and suggestion, executed with a novelist's eye for oblique human suffering, is her devastating reckoning with the past Guardian
