Caste in Half: Half-white, half-black - one woman's journey to resolve her past in the heartland of Kenya Contributor(s): Robinson, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1912014432 ISBN-13: 9781912014439 Publisher: 2qt Limited (Publishing) OUR PRICE: $12.83 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 272 pages |
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Publisher Description: The fog comes towards my mother's village early in the morning, a floating mass that moves towards the hills After leaving England with a double fi rst from Oxford University, Susan Robinson's father moved to Kenya to work for the colonial government. Her mother was Pokot, from a small village of grass-thatched houses on the African plains. As Susan and her siblings grow up in the knowledge that they are half-white, half-black, they struggle to establish their identities in a society that can be ruthlessly cruel to outsiders. Emotionally, intellectually and culturally they are torn between their mother's and their father's worlds. This is the story of their survival and their journey to freedom in the rapidly changing world of the 1960s. Caste in Half is also a hymn to the beauty and majesty of Kenya, conjuring up vivid images of the country's incredible landscape, flora and fauna. Written with great passion and a profound awareness of a way of life that has now passed into history, it is a memoir that will haunt you for a long time to come. |