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Fiela's Child

Fiela's Child

Matthee, Dalene

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Fiction

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0226510832
ISBN13: 9780226510835
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 1 1992
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A powerful novel of race and identity in South Africa that the New Statesman said was everything a novel can be

Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him.

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