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