You Can't Get Lost In Cape Town (Women Writing Africa)
Editorial THE FEMINIST PRESS
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"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories." --New York Times Bo...
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- ISBN13 9781558612259
- ISBN10 1558612254
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 214
- Año de Edición 2000
- Idioma Inglés
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Literatura InglesaYou Can't Get Lost In Cape Town (Women Writing Africa)
Editorial THE FEMINIST PRESS
"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories." --New York Times Bo...
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"[Wicomb's] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories." --New York Times Book Review
"Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape." --Seattle Times"Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadie Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have received. She has a bleak but wise perspective on people and on the South African world." --Wall Street Journal"A moving and perceptive exploration of pain, change, and selfhood." --The Canberra Times"Seductive, brilliant, and precious . . . An extraordinary writer." --Toni Morrison, author of BelovedWhile still a self-conscious and overweight adolescent, Frieda is sent away from home to be among the first to integrate a prestigious Anglican high school in Cape Town, and finds herself in a city where racial lines are so strictly drawn that it is not possible to step out of one?s place.
At last, Frieda flees to England, only to return more than a decade later to a South Africa now in violent rebellion against apartheidbut still, seemingly, without a place for her. It is only as Frieda finds the courage to tell her terrible stories? that she at last begins to create her own place in a world where she has always felt herself an exile.