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David's Story

✍ Scribed by Wicomb, Zoë; Driver, Dorothy

Book ID
110277013
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Tongue
English
Weight
988 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781558619135

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The 1987 publication of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town won Zoe Wicomb an international readership and wide critical acclaim. As richly imagined and stylistically innovative as Wicomb's debut work, David's Story is a mesmerizing novel, multilayered and multivoiced, at times elegiac, wry, and expansive.
Unfolding in South Africa at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1991, the novel explores the life and vision of David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement--a world seldom revealed to outsiders. With "time to think" after the unbanning of the movement, David is researching his roots in the history of the mixed-race "Coloured" people of South Africa and of their antecedents among the indigenous people and early colonial settlers.
But David soon learns that he is on a hit list, and, caught in a web of betrayal and surveillance, he is forced to rethink his role in the...

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