*This Life* is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds formed ther
This Life
β Scribed by Schoeman, Karel
- Book ID
- 108648888
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 273 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780914671152
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β¦ Synopsis
This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa's most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman's life. As a post-apartheid novel, This Life considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator's tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator's attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in the present. This Life is a powerful story partly of suffering and partly of reflection.
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