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S'està carregant… The Cardinals (1995)de Bessie Head
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Mouse lacks love and family, but lives for books. A newspaper job opens her eyes to real life. Johnny, a time-worn journalist, offers love and shelter, but at the price of losing her naive view of society. Can she accept that apartheid rules, and form her own loveless history? No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Along the way Head is - slightly tentatively - exploring her idea that when confronted with terrible injustices (like apartheid) we have an obligation to do more than simply adopt a radical stance and complain: she ties in the direct, visible injustices of pass-books and immorality laws with the long-term consequences that work out in the characters of people who grow up under such a system. The first part of the book is very good: the second half reads a bit too much like a first novel, with characters engaging in rather too many theoretical conversations about the world, their place in it as writers, etc. Still, a very interesting first-hand account of that particular period in South African history. This edition also includes seven short pieces - prose poems or "meditations" - from later in Head's career. ( )