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Hum If You Don't Know the Words

ISBN-13: 9780399575082

Author(s): Bianca Marais

Subjects: FA, FBA

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Putnam

Publication Date: 08-03-2018

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£13.99
Hum If You Don't Know the Words

About the book

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.