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.
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 31/10/2011
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ISBN: 9781448111190
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Length: 352 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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'Perceptive and sensitive and extremely funny'
Isobel Shepherd-Smith, The Times
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'One of the new breed of women writers in South Africa who are telling our story with such power and talent'
Cape Times
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'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
