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Agaat : a novel

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: 0982503091
  • ISBN: 9780982503096 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: x, 581 pages ; 22 cm
    print
  • 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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