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1) The promise
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the great modern narrative nonfiction tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Burning the Grass is a literary masterpiece of true crime based on the April 2010 murder of Eugène Terre'Blanche, the firebrand leader of the far-right AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging-the Afrikaner Resistance Movement), who espoused white Afrikaner rule even as it was ending in South Africa. It tells a universal story of small-town life where every face is familiar and...
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Language
English
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In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by British soldiers and are being held in a concentration camp. It is early in the Boer War, and Lettie's father, grandfather, and brother are off fighting the British as thousands of Afrikaner women and children are detained. The camps are cramped and disease ridden; the threat of illness...
4) Blood river: the passionate saga of South Africa's Afrikaners and of life in their embattled land
Author
Publisher
Everest House
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A history of the tumultuous period leading up to the 1910 founding of the modern state of South Africa explores how the discovery of vast diamond and gold deposits led to a fierce struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region.
8) Obietnica
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Czarne
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Polish
Description
South Africa, around Pretoria. The Swart family, wealthy Afrikaners, run a large farm here. Seemingly nothing makes them stand out. With time, however, it turns out that their fate was marked by death and a promise.
We meet Swartów in 1986, on the day of Rachel's funeral. The one on her deathbed makes her last wish - she wants her husband Mana to hand over to Salome - their devoted black maid - the ownership of the house where the woman lives with...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.
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