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Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart Beauty a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei struggles to raise her children after her husband's death. Told through Beauty and Robin's alternating perspectives the narratives interweave to create a rich and complex tapestry of the emotions and tensions at the heart of Apartheid South Africa. Hum If You Don't Know the Words is a beautifully rendered look at loss racism and the creation of family.
TITLE: Hum If You Don't Know The Words
AUTHOR: Bianca Marais
SKU: 9780735218260
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 13/07/2017
PLACE PUBLISHED: United States
PAGES: 432
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 152 mm x 229 mm