Van Niekerk, Marlene

Agaat / Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns - 1st U.S. ed - Portland, Or. Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West : Tin House Books ; , 2010, c2004. - x, 581 p. ; 22 cm.

First published in English in South Africa by Jonathan Ball Publishers under the title The way of the women (2006).

Set in apartheid-era South Africa, "Agaat" portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat.


Translated from the Afrikaans.

9780982503096

2009039476


Women farmers----Fiction
Women household employees----Fiction


South Africa----Social life and customs----Fiction

PT6592.32.A545 / A6513 2010

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