| Imaginings of Sand Contributor(s): Brink, André (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156006588 ISBN-13: 9780156006583 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day. Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.64" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - African - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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| Publisher Description: When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien M ller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day. Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brink, Andre: - Andre Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is a three-time recipient of South Africa's CNA Award, and has been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize. He is a professor of English at the University of Cape Town. |