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Title Agaat : a novel / Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns.
Publisher Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2010.
PUBLISHER Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West.
Copyright ©2006
Description x, 581 pages ; 22 cm
Edition First U.S. edition.


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 WB-Adult Collection  FIC VAN NIEKERK Nearby on shelf  3 0672 00226 3861 01-19-21  AVAILABLE
NOTE First published in English as Agaat, South Africa : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2006.
Translated from the Afrikaans.
Summary "Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. Through flashbacks and diary entries, the reader learns about Milla's past. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of promise — young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside. Forty years later her family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene Van Niekerk creates a story of love and family loyalty. Winner of the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2007, Agaat was translated as The Way of the Women by Michiel Heyns, who received the Sol Plaatje Award for his translation"--From publisher.
Subject Women farmers -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- South Africa -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Add'l Names Heyns, Michiel, translator.
ADD'L TITLE Agaat. English
ISBN 9780982503096
0982503091