Books set in South Africa (100)
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El conservador by Nadine Gordimer ES
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
La única idea que Mehring, un industrial cincuentón y aún atractivo para las mujeres, tiene por clara en su vida es la que debe conservar a toda costa su modo de vida. Ni su amante izquierdista, ni su hijo —un colegial presuntuoso que lleva pelo largo, consiguen socavar su convicción de que tiene el derecho inalienable a seguir en posesión de sus bienes. Y nadie parece cuestionarlo : ni los trabajadores negros que cuidan de su finca en el Transvaal, ni los indios que venden los productos de su tierra, ni los hacenderos boers que le consideran un simple aficionado en los asuntos del campo, ni l... continue
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Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f-ted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she i... continue
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Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times by Kopano Matlwa EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A powerful and timely novel from 'South Africa's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' (Bookseller) . 'Heart-wrenching' Grazia . With urgency and tenderness Evening Primrose explores issues of race, gender and the medical profession through the eyes of a junior doctor. When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, her ambition is tested as she faces the stark reality of South Africa's public healthcare system. As she leaves her deeply religious mother and makes friends with the politically-minded Nyasha, Masechaba's eyes are opened to the rising xenophobic tension that carries ... continue
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Faith Like Potatoes : The Story of a Farmer who Risked Everything for God by Angus Buchan EN
ZimbabweDescription:
In this moving account, set in South Africa, Angus Buchan tells his true story about following God in the midst of adversity and illustrates the amazing acts God can perform through His faithful followers.
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Florescencia by Kopano Matlwa ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Desde que era niña, Masechaba sueña con hacerse médico y salvar vidas. En una joven Sudáfrica que no ha cerrado en absoluto las heridas de su pasado, la medicina le parece una vía ideal para contribuir a apaciguar el sufrimiento de una sociedad todavía xenófoba, machista y supersticiosa. Pero a la vez que trata de aliviar el dolor ajeno ―trabajando en un hospital con pocos recursos y enfrentándose a diario con las penurias del sistema público de salud, que muchas veces pondrá a prueba su vocación― Masechaba tiene que ... continue
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Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey by Mpho Tutu van Furth EN
EnglandDescription:
Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey is about reparations. We think of reparations as a remunerative act and as a punitive one. The colonial powers must pay back a significant percentage of what they stole from the colonized. To arrive at what would be a meaningful amount, we must tally up the cost of the human lives lost, the opportunities denied, the mineral wealth ravaged, and the ecosystems destroyed. How can we even begin to calculate the worth of even one of those categories? How can we rightly price even one human life? Furthermore, this approach assumes there is only one sid... continue
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Formas de morir by Zakes Mda ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Un hombre y una mujer en Sudáfrica. Toloki, un vagabundo feo y maloliente, una figura estrafalaria y enternecedora, con su sombrero de copa y su traje carnavalesco, va de funeral en funeral ofreciendo sus servicios de plañidero a cambio de unas pocas monedas. Noria, en cambio, es una mujer bella, fuerte y generosa, que se ha convertido en el símbolo de la resistencia de las mujeres tras años de miseria marcados por la tragedia de perder a sus dos hijos. Un día, en el entierro de un niño, Toloki reconoce a la madre: es Noria, su amiga de la infancia. Su reencuentro en la ciudad y el relato de s... continue
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Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Ghost Boy is a deeply moving story of recovery and the power of love. Through Martin's story we can know what it is like to be here and yet not here - unable to communicate yet feeling and understanding everything. Martin's emergence from his darkness enables us to celebrate the human spirit and is a wake-up call to cherish our own lives.
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God Is Not a Christian : And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
In this essential collection of Desmond Tutu’s most historic and controversial speeches and writings, we witness his unique career of provoking the powerful and confronting the world in order to protect the oppressed, the poor, and other victims of injustice. Renowned first for his courageous opposition to apartheid in South Africa, he and his ministry soon took on international dimensions. Rooted in his faith and in the values embodied in the African spirit of ubuntu, Tutu’s uncompromising vision of a shared humanity has compelled him to speak out, even in the face of violent opposition and v... continue