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Frieda And Min

Frieda And Min

When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid.

Reviews

  • 'Perceptive and sensitive and extremely funny'

    Isobel Shepherd-Smith, The Times

  • 'One of the new breed of women writers in South Africa who are telling our story with such power and talent'

    Cape Times

  • 'A novel that everyone should read..has that rare ability to be both moving and funny...deserves all the praise that it will surely get' 

    Pamela Weaver, Examiner

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About the Author

Pamela Jooste

Pamela Jooste was born in Cape Town, where she still lives. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels: Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places, People Like Ourselves and Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, her first novel, which won the Commonwealth Best First Book Award for the African Region; the Samlam Literary Award, and the Book Data South African Booksellers' Choice Award. Her new novel, Star of the Morning, is being published as a Doubleday hardcover in February 2007.

Pamela Jooste

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