Versluis, a solitary, well-off, rather rigid Dutchman, travels to Bloemfontein because he has TB. Here he comes into contact with fellow sufferers also seeking a cure, with the people who make up the white community of the raw South African town.

Another country

Schoeman, Karel

Picador

Promised Land

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Summit Books

From the Back Cover: " 'Promised Land' was originally published in English in 1978 at a time well before the political events in South Africa had reached their present crisis. Nine years later, this powerful and apocalyptic vision seems prophetically probable, timely, and an urgent warning. For 'Promised Land,' set in the indeterminate future, offers a vision of life in South Africa after her white inhabitants have lost control of the country. The few whites who remain are blind to the reasons for their loss. They are unable to connect their desolation, their longing for past glories that will never return, and their loss of personal dignity to their moral destitution."

SIMON & SCHUSTER @ TRADE

Olive Schreiner: 'n lewe in Suid-Afrika, 1855-1881 (Afrikaans Edition)

Human & Rousseau

The face of the country: A South African family album, 1860-1910 : photographic portraits from the collections of the South African Library

History

Africa

Witnesses to War: Personal Documents of the Anglo-Boer War from the Collections of the South African Library (English and Afrikaans Edition)

South African Library

In die verhaal van vier generasies van 'n boeregesin in die Roggeveld word die omwenteling weergegee wat in die loop van die negentiende eeu op die Suid-Afrikaanse platteland en in die Afrikaner-samelewing voltrek is.

Klassiek reeks: Hierdie lewe: Stemme 2 (Afrikaans Edition)

Human & Rosseau

Teen die einde van die negentiende eeu kom 'n middeljarige besoeker uit Europa in die binneland van Suid-Afrika aan. Versluis is 'n afsydige Nederlander wat na Bloemfontein kom om van tering te herstel. Hy verken die vreemde land en doen algaande kennis en begrip op van dít wat tot dusver vir hom vreemd was. Dit word ook, uiteindelik, 'n voorbereiding op die onafwendbare einde van die reis: die dood. Die "ander land" word nie net geografies bedoel nie, maar ook die reis na die onbekende.

Klassiek reeks: 'n Ander land (Afrikaans Edition)

At the end of the twentieth century in Black-ruled South Africa, George Neethling returns to the farm he inherited from his mother, encounters impoverished families doomed to perish in their dreams, and struggles to understand his mother's longing for her land

Promised land: A novel

J Friedmann

This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa's most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman's life. As a post-apartheid novel, This Life considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator's tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator's attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in the present. This Life is a powerful story partly of suffering and partly of reflection.

This Life: A Novel

Literary

Archipelago

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