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Agaat : a novel / Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns.

Van Niekerk, Marlene. (Author). Heyns, Michiel. (Added Author).

Summary:

Flashbacks and diary entries describe the relationship between sixty-seven-year-old ALS sufferer Milla and her maidservant turned caretaker Agaat, which evolves during the years of apartheid in South Africa.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780982503096 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0982503091
  • Physical Description: x, 581 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: Portland, Or. : Tin House Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
First published in English in South Africa by Jonathan Ball Publishers under the title The way of the women (2006).
Citation/References Note:
Booklist starred, April 2010
Pub Weekly, March 2010
Booklist starred
Pub Weekly
Target Audience Note:
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
Young Adult
Language Note:
Translated from the Afrikaans.
Subject: Women farmers > South Africa > Fiction.
Women household employees > South Africa > Fiction.
South Africa > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Women farmers > Fiction.
Women household employees > Fiction.
South Africa > Social life and customs > Fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Monroe County Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Pocono Mountain Public Library F Van (Text) 35540000001816 PMPL 2nd Floor Fiction Available -


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