The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg

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ISBN-10:

0955233992

ISBN-13:

9780955233999

Edition: 1
Released: Jan 01, 2008
Publisher: Aflame Books
Format: Paperback, 200 pages
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Description:

Translated for the first time from Africa's native Zulu language, this novel set in apartheid-era rural South Africa follows an urban swindler as he attempts to take advantage of well-meaning but naive villagers, claiming to be on a mission of salvation—but in truth looking for instant riches. Both hilarious and tender, it explores the fateful confrontation between pastoral benevolence and urban slyness in a peasant countryside that is being destroyed by the rapid loss of land and liberties.












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