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1 online resource (129 pages) |
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A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to different masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree. A stunning translation by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee of a masterful work of fiction by one of the greatest living writers in Afrikaans. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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A young woman remembers her life as a slave, from her capture as a child and her work as a servant under several masters, as she hides in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree, the sole survivor of a failed expedition in South Africa. |
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"In J.M.Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerfully symbolic story in the voice of a slave that explores the depths of imagination, isolation, fear, and love. A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to various masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Women slaves -- Fiction.
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Afrikaans fiction -- Translations into English.
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Afrikaans fiction. |
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Women slaves. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Translations.
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| Added Author |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Stockenström, Wilma. Expedition to the baobab tree Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, c2008 9780798149396 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Stockenström, Wilma. Expedition to the baobab tree Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2014 9781935744924 (DLC) 2013042639 (OCoLC)846889368 |
| ISBN |
9781935744931 : $18.00 |
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1935744933 : $18.00 |
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