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.
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