A descendant of the first Dutch colonists in South Africa comes of age in the late 1800s, torn between his love of the Knysna Forest and its wildlife and the demands of his family and a dramatically changing world

Circles in a Forest

Literature & Fiction

MATTHEE, DALENE

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In Africa a child wanders too far into the Knysna Forest. He never returns. Nine years later, two government officials, working on a census, find a white child living with a Coloured family in the mountains on the other side of the forest. They take him away from the stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and give him back to his 'original' family. Whipped into using a new name and calling strangers 'ma' and 'pa', Benjamin is so stunned that the cannot cry and waits for Fiela to reclaim him. But Fiela, powerless before authority, never comes. So Benjamin has to grow up before he can go in search of the truth.

Fielas Child

Penguin Putnam~trade

Action & Adventure

The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd

Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him. "Everything a novel can be: convincing, thought-provoking, upsetting, unforgettable, and timeless."—Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman "Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today."—Francis Levy, New York Times Book Review "A powerful creation of time and place with dark threads of destiny and oppression and its roots in the almost Biblical soil of a storyteller's art."—Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian "The characters in the novel live and breathe; and the landscape is so brightly painted that the trees, birds, elephants, and rivers of old South Africa are characters themselves. A book not to miss."—Kirkus Reviews

Fiela's Child (Phoenix Fiction)

Teen & Young Adult

University of Chicago Press

Ballantine Books

Fiela's Child

Raised by Fiela Kimoetie, a Black woman, after he wanders as a three-year-old into the South African forest, the young man who may be Lukas Van Rooyen, son of Afrikaaners, finds himself forced by the Magistrate to reorient his affections and values

A descendant of the first Dutch colonists in South Africa comes of age in the late 1800s, torn between his love of the Knysna Forest and its wildlife and the demands of his family and a dramatically changing world

British & Irish

KNOPF

Raised by Fiela Kimoetie, a Black woman, after he wanders as a three-year-old into the South African forest, the young man who may be Lukas Van Rooyen, son of Afrikaaners, finds himself forced by the Magistrate to reorient his affections and values

Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him. "Everything a novel can convincing, thought-provoking, upsetting, unforgettable, and timeless."—Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman " Fiela's Child is a parade that broadens and humanizes our understanding of the conflicts still affecting South Africa today."—Francis Levy, New York Times Book Review "A powerful creation of time and place with dark threads of destiny and oppression and its roots in the almost Biblical soil of a storyteller's art."—Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian "The characters in the novel live and breathe; and the landscape is so brightly painted that the trees, birds, elephants, and rivers of old South Africa are characters themselves. A book not to miss."— Kirkus Reviews

Longman

'n Houtkapper met 'n rustelose siel. 'n Legendariese olifantbul wat losbreek van sy trop . . . In die groen skemerwêreld van die Outeniekwa loop hulle kringpaaie. Saul Barnard, deur sy mense verwerp en deur gewetenlose houtkopers tot kneg verneder; Oupoot, eindeloos agtervolg deur jagters. 'n Man en sy dier-broer - saamgegooi in 'n ongerepte oerbos, wat stuk vir stuk deur gouddelwers, boskappers en ander uitroeiers vernietig word.

Kringe in 'n Bos (Afrikaans Edition)

Tafelberg

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Circles in a Forest

Fielas Child

Circles in a Forest

Fiela's Child (Phoenix Fiction)

Circles in a Forest

Fiela's Child

Circles in a Forest

Fiela's Child

Fiela's Child

Kringe in 'n Bos (Afrikaans Edition)