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A story of a liberal white family that flees a war between black and white. They leave with their servant July in their yellow bakkie. A interesting contrast of white and black and the failure to really understand as captured when the wife says "is our liberalism skin deep only?" (Not an exact quotation) The story symbols are the bakkie and the shot gun. Is this a book of hope for the future as displayed by the Samles children playing with the black children or is this dystopia look at the futur
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At the height of the Soweto uprising, a white South African couple with three small children flee Johannesburg with their black servant July, taking refuge in his home village hundreds of miles away in the bush. But once there, the balance of power between the whites and their servant slowly begins to shift.
This is an uncomfortable read for many reasons, but mostly for me because it points up the prejudices that still govern even people who think they are liberal and non-racist. The Smales under ...more
This is an uncomfortable read for many reasons, but mostly for me because it points up the prejudices that still govern even people who think they are liberal and non-racist. The Smales under ...more
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