Playing in the Light (Paperback)
| Author: Zoe Wicomb |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Distribution Services
ISBN-10: 1595582215
ISBN-13: 9781595582218
Sku: 204706523
Publish Date: 1/1/2008
Pages:
218
Age Range:
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Marion, the owner of a Cape Town travel agency, feels that apartheid and racism are things of the past, and believes she's being very modern when she hires a black woman, Brenda. However, when ugly secrets emerge about Marion's family history, Marion and Brenda take a trip together, and Marion begins to realize how little she knows about her own country. In this intelligent novel, Zoe Wicomb traverses the murky topic of race with finesse.
Marion, the owner of a Cape Town travel agency, feels that apartheid and racism are things of the past, and believes she's being very modern when she hires a black woman, Brenda. However, when ugly secrets emerge about Marion's family history, Marion and Brenda take a trip together, and Marion begins to realize how little she knows about her own country. In this intelligent novel, Zoe Wicomb traverses the murky topic of race with finesse.
Praise
"[Zoe] Wicomb deftly explores the ghastly soup of racism in all its unglory--denial, tradition, habit, stupidity, fear--and manages to do so without moralizing or becoming formulaic."
- Alison McCulloch
09/03/2006
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