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02288aam a2200349 i 4500 001 EFA02A8456B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 230323s2023 sa 000 f eng d 020 $a 1415210853 020 $a 9781415210857 035 $a (OCoLC)1373840158 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c OI@ $d OCLCF $d STF $d NLZAH $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a PR9369.4.V258 $b G49 2023 100 1 $a Van der Merwe, Almini, $e author. 245 10 $a Ghost limb / $c Almini van der Merwe. 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Umuzi, $c 2023 300 $a 183 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Trailblazer ; $v 4 520 $a "It's the late eighties in Strand, a small coastal town southwest of Cape Town. When Johanna, a new maid, arrives at the home of a dominee's family, nobody imagines that she will capture the family in her web of emotional complexity. The narrator daughter develops an ambivalent friendship with the new recruit but Johanna remains an enigma. She is at once mercurial and full of fun, playing children's games and making mischief, but also has periodic rages, throwing bricks and abusing animals - and eventually turning on the children. After her arrival, Johanna joins a pack of roving neighbourhood children that includes the daughter and her brothers. Together they find a form of belonging and imaginative outlet in the stifling religious community. But when a shift in the political landscape precipitates a change in family life, Johanna is in danger of being left behind. With her place in the household and neighbourhood increasingly uncertain, Johanna draws the narrator into a scheme where domestic tensions threaten to explode." -- $c Back cover. 650 0 $a South African fiction (English) $y 21st century. 650 7 $a South African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127180 651 0 $a Strand (South Africa) $v Fiction. 651 7 $a South Africa $z Strand. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01220853 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Trailblazer (Cape Town (South Africa)) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015433.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EFA02A8456B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search