Postcards from South Africa - Rayda Jacobs

In this powerful, South African collection powerful, poignant and of short stories Rayda Jacobs-leaving suddenly for Canada at the age of 21, to return for good only 27 years later-seeks to understand the deep marks that South Africa has left upon her.
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The character of Sabah runs like a rich thread through the collection, as Jacobs takes the reader an intense, semi-autobiographical journey which explores childhood, exile, and return to an altered South Africa in 1995.
Other Stories reveal South Africans tellingly to each other man the elderly woman frightened of the young the garden garden gate, Shack-dwelling ing family ruthlessly compromised by the housing agent, the Muslim deuanteise must helo -who mysherbel body for bitial washing of
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Frequently funny, often serious, always decaptively simple-these postcards are the compassionate yet challenging creation of a giftad storyteller.
Soft cover

Condition: Good