- South Africans, Nuclear weapons, Diamond smugglers, Kings and rulers
In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair.
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Unpretentious, relentless, contemporary and resolved.
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- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Jonas Jonasson
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 394
- Publisher
- Ecco, Fourth Estate, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007557899
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