Shades
A Cultural, Fiction, Historical book. Never have I despised a book as much as I despised Shades.
St Matthias Mission 1902: 'There are men who know that when you are finished with this war of yours and have raised your flag to the glory of your Empire - the one that we, as black men, are supposed to revere for having bestowed on us education, faith, prosperity and all the other high-sounding gifts - that you will sell us out - perhaps against the advance of metaphorical cattle - and say it is expedient. You will sacrifice our rights in order to secure your peace with the Boers and shrug us off. It is for this expedience that men like Tom and Reuben and Sonwabo Pumami are dead. There will be thousands like them in the time to come. ' Against a backdrop of drought, the rinderpest pandemic, the South African War, the burgeoning gold-mining industry and the complex birth of the exploitative system of recruiting migrant labour, Shades explores the growing tensions between cultures in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century and...
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- Pages: 444 pages
- ISBN: 9780140244151 / 140244158
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What an amazingly textured book this is - hauntingly beautiful, very sad, but with a hopeful ending. I loved the way that Poland wove together the stories of her "shades" - her real ancestors - which she imaginatively recreates. The backdrop of turn-of-the-century South Africa with the lure of the gold mines heightened the drama. The... Never have I despised a book as much as I despised Shades. studied it at high school. thought reading was boring,no it was just this book. didn't like that 18 yr old falling for 30 something yr old n vise versa!!!!
