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Agaat

* A compelling portrait of two women's lifelong relationship against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa.

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  • "* A compelling portrait of two women's lifelong relationship against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa."@en
  • ""Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise--young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla's 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 about love and loyalty."--Publisher's website."@en
  • ""The most important South African novel since Coetzee's Disgrace."--The Times Literary Supplement '[Agaat] is absolutely the most extraordinary book I've read in a long time. You must read it.' - Toni Morrison, author of A Mercy 'Books like Agaat ... are the reason people read novels, and the reason authors write them.' - The New York Times On the farm Grootmoedersdrift, tragic and unexpected events are triggered by a number of fateful shifts of power and dependence in the relationships between four family members. Milla Redelinghuys, the idealistic heiress of the family farm, suffers cruel."@en
  • "Focuses on the relationship between Milla, an aging white female farmer in South Africa, and Agaat, her black maidservant, in a story set near the end of apartheid."@en
  • "Focuses on the relationship between Milla, an aging white female farmer in South Africa, and Agaat, her black maidservant, in a story set near the end of apartheid."
  • "Als een blanke ALS-patiënte verzorgd wordt door haar zwarte meid op een boerderij in Zuid-Afrika, tekent zich in hun onderlinge verhouding de veranderde machtsverhouding in hun land af na de afschaffing van de apartheid."
  • "Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-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 gu."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "South African fiction (English)"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Modern fiction"@en
  • "Afrikaans fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"

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  • "Agaat"@sv
  • "Agaat"
  • "Agaat"@en
  • "The way of the women"@en
  • "The way of the women"
  • "Agaat : roman"
  • "Agaat : Roman"
  • "Agaat Roman"
  • "Agaat : a novel"
  • "The Way of the women"

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