"Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, you do something that changes your life forever. Like climbing a tree with a girl you don't know. Marnus is tired of feeling invisible, living in the shadow of his two brothers. . . But when a girl called Leila turns up on their doorstep one morning with a petition, it's the start of an unexpected adventure"--OCLC.
Returning to her South African home to attend the death of her violent father, Eva van Rensburg is forced to confront a terrible childhood secret, in a tale set against a backdrop of the region's troubled history.
In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-- a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.
Presents a travel guide to South Africa, providing information on history, culture, geography, hotels, restaurants, shopping, sightseeing, sports, and nightclubs.
Examines important accomplishments and events in the history of African-Americans with a focus on the status of the African-American people in the last decades of the twentieth century. Includes short biographies of notable men and women, a glossary, a list of related Internet sites, and other resources.
