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Gloria, living with her mother in a Kingston tenement yard, wins a scholarship to one of Jamaica's best girls' schools. She is the engaging narrator of the at first alienating and then transforming experiences of an education that in time takes her away from her mother, friends and the island; of her consciousness of bodily change and sexual awakening; of her growth of adult awareness of a Jamaica of class division, endemic violence and the new spectre of HIV-AIDS.
The novel's strengths lie in the pace, economy and shapeliness of its page-turning narrative; in its poetic descriptions of urban and rural Jamaica; and above all in the quality of its characterisation and the dramatisation of Gloria's relationships with her mother, grandmother and the girls she has always known in her grandmother's rural village, with Rachel, their neighbour in the yard who is Gloria's rock of understanding, and, at the heart of the novel, with Annie, the purest and indivisible love of her adolescent years.
The novel's strengths lie in the pace, economy and shapeliness of its page-turning narrative; in its poetic descriptions of urban and rural Jamaica; and above all in the quality of its characterisation and the dramatisation of Gloria's relationships with her mother, grandmother and the girls she has always known in her grandmother's rural village, with Rachel, their neighbour in the yard who is Gloria's rock of understanding, and, at the heart of the novel, with Annie, the purest and indivisible love of her adolescent years.
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In Julie 1905 kry Siegfried Bock van die Kaiserliche Landespolizei te kampe met ’n plaaslike boer se grudood, spoke uit sy verlede en ’n Berlynse besoeker wat ’n dodelike wrok koester. Hy worstel met Duits-Suidwes-Afrika se onstuimige politiek en ongenaakbare natuur. As hy geregtigheid wil laat seëvier, moet hy dít, asook strominge in sy eie gemoed, te bowe kom. Tweegevreet bied, soos sy voorganger Die vertes in, spanning én stof tot nadenke.
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Diané sukkel van jongs af met 'n eetversteuring. Toe sy Robert ontmoet is sy so dankbaar vir die aantreklike man wat haar help en aanvaar net soos sy is. Robert het haar nog altyd lief gehad, maar nou is hulle huwelik op die rotse. Hoekom sal Robert nou die pad vat? En wie is die persoon wat sê dat Robert die pa van haar kind is? En sal sy haar seuntjie wat outisties is kan help? Of is sy juis die oorsaak van sy probleme? Sal Diané kans sien om te bly as sy uitvind wat werklik aan die gang is?
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Van Bientang het net die naam van 'n restaurant in Hermanus oorgebly: Bientang's Cave, asook 'n weggooi-opmerking: die laaste Strandloper. Uit hierdie gegewens sny die digter se verbeelding spoor in 'n kontra-epos. Wie was Bientang? Te midde van historiese geskrifte, kontemporêre angste en oorlewerings verskyn buitelyne om haar vir oomblikke binne bereik te bring. Die toonaard van die bundel is egter verlies oor 'n verlede wat geen spoor laat in die opgeskryfde geskiedenisse van die land nie.
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In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and numerous interviews, Death Flight sheds shocking new light on one of apartheid’s darkest chapters.
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Every man’s mind is a universe with countless places in which he can hide—even from himself!
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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Я поцеловала его по ошибке, не зная, кто он. Даже не могла представить последствия своего поступка! Теперь он одержим мной, ищет меня и жаждет сделать своей. Я же разрываюсь между желаниями сдаться на его милость или бежать от него на край света. Кто он, загадочный незнакомец? Почему его тайна смертельно опасна для меня?