THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathbed unleashing a turmult of myth, legend and brute fact. Confronted by the realities of a land hurtling towards change, Kristien discovers that the present holds its own moments of savagery. A searing panorama of South Africa's experience, reminiscent in its political & imaginative scope of Marquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude.
- ISBN10 0156006588
- ISBN13 9780156006583
- Publish Date 19 March 1999 (first published 12 February 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English