Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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1. Cry, the beloved country

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Author:
Paton, Alan
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4 stars
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Description:
A novel depicting the racial ferment in the beautiful country of South Africa in 1948

2. Hum if you don't know the words

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Author:
Marais, Bianca, 1976-
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"Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred. Until the Soweto Uprising,...