Agaat

Agaat
Michiel Heyns, Marlene van Niekerk, Mary Gaitskill
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Paperback
h216 x 140mm - 592pg
1 Dec 2020 US
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9781951142209
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In 1940s apartheid South Africa, Milla de Wet discovers a child abandoned in the fields of her family farm. Ignoring the warnings of friends and family, Milla brings the girl, Agaat, into her home. But the kindness is fleeting, as Milla makes Agaat her maidservant and, later, a nanny for her son. At turns cruel and tender, this relationship between a wealthy white woman and her Black maidservant is constantly fraught and shaped by a rigid social order. Decades later, Milla is confined to her bed with ALS, and is quickly losing her ability to communicate. Her family has fallen apart, her country is on the brink of change, and all she has left are her memories--and a reckoning with the only person who remains by her side: Agaat. In complex and devastating ways, the power shifts between the two women, mirroring the historic upheavals happening around them and revealing a shared lifetime of hopes, sacrifices, and control. Hailed as an international masterpiece, Marlene van Niekerk' s Agaat is a haunting and deeply layered saga of resilience, loyalty, betrayal, and how the passage of time cannot heal all wounds.
Agaat is a tangle of language and rhyme, of wordplay and digressions. . . . Both absorbing in its minutiae and provocative in its allegorical approach to apartheid, Agaat explodes the domestic sphere to encompass the world.
Marlene van Niekerk is an award-winning poet, novelist and short story writer. She was awarded South Africa' s high honor, the Order of Ikhamanga, in 2011 for her outstanding intellectual contribution to the literary arts and culture field through poetry, literature and philosophical works. She has received many accolades, including being a finalist for the sixth Man Booker International Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Prize, the M-Net Literary Prize, the Booksellers' Choice Award South Africa, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Michiel Heyns is an award-winning literary translator and author of nine novels: The Children' s Day, The Reluctant Passenger, The Typewriter' s Tale, Bodies Politic, Invisible Furies, Lost Ground, A Sportful Malice, I am Pandarus, and A Poor Season for Whales. He was previously professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781951142209
Published: 1 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Tin House Books
Publisher: Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 592

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