In Agaat - 'n teer en oorrompelende roman oor plaasvroue, in nood aangewese op mekaar - gee Marlene van Niekerk 'n ontstemmende blik op 'n halfeeu se Afrikaanse landskap, soos gekenmerk deur ontwrigte, verminkte menslikheid maar ook deur nooitaflatende hoop. Die uitsterste grensgebiede van intimiteit word verken. Hoe word daar afskeid geneem en gesterwe? Deur watter soort genade? Wat is die ware aard van wat mens so maklik "liefde" en "sorg" noem?

Agaat (Afrikaans Edition)

Niekerk, Marlene Van

Literature & Fiction

Tafelberg

The Snow Sleeper

Human & Rosseau

<p>This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.</p>

Triomf

Van Niekerk, Marlène

Press, The Overlook

Literary

Abrams Press

Agaat

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