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Author:

Schoeman, Karel, author.

Title:

This life / Karel Shoeman ; Translated from the Afrikaans by Else Silke.

Edition:

First Archipelago Books Edition.

Publisher:

Archipelago Books,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

242 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Afrikaners--Fiction.
Rural families--Northern Cape--Northern Cape--Fiction.
Family farms--Northern Cape--Northern Cape--Fiction.
Northern Cape (South Africa)--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Silke, Elsa, translator.

Other Titles:

Hierdie lewe. English. 2015.

Notes:

"First published in English in 2005 by Human & Rousseau, an imprint of NB Publishers, Cape Town South Africa."

Summary:

"THIS LIFE considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one South African [family]. Told from the perspective of one woman in her final days, it is a lyrical account of a 200 year old culture and history that has been irrevocably lost."--Publisher's note.

ISBN:

0914671154 (pbk.) :
9780914671152 (pbk.) :

LCCN:

2014035212

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)