Author(s): Miriam Tlali
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 208
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 2004-03-01
Dimensions: 139.7 x 213.36 x 15.24mm
Publication City/Country: Peterborough, Canada
Edition: Revised ed.
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Set in Soweto, this is one of the most important novels of South Africa under apartheid. The novel depicts the life od an account typist in a large busy shop where most of the clientele are poor. The authors fine eye for detail provides an unrivaled sense of everyday life in the SOuth Africa of that time.