- English fiction, South Africa, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked by the police. Afraid and consumed by her hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel. There she learns to use her mind and looks for the battles that lie ahead. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Bryce Courtenay
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 899
- Publisher
- Mardarin Books, Little Brown & Co, W. Heinemann Australia
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140272925
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A South-African-born naturalized Australian novelist and one of Australia's most commercially successful authors.
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