As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.
- ISBN10 0156029642
- ISBN13 9780156029643
- Publish Date 8 March 2004 (first published 5 September 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 311
- Language English