A Change of TongueRandom House, 2003 - 376 pages In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are - at least on the surface - so vastly different? Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa's foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in Africa today |
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Page 75
... problem is . When I get up I go straight to the problem . I have all my meetings at night . This I like . But it is just the thing of the R4 000 that I must pay June month . Actually R12 000 altogether . And I can't figure it out . I ...
... problem is . When I get up I go straight to the problem . I have all my meetings at night . This I like . But it is just the thing of the R4 000 that I must pay June month . Actually R12 000 altogether . And I can't figure it out . I ...
Page 95
... problems were legion . The main problem was hygiene . We made up rhymes and songs that go : " When I cough , I make my little hand a fist ; when I sneeze , I make my little hand flat ; when I yawn , I hold my little hand in front ...
... problems were legion . The main problem was hygiene . We made up rhymes and songs that go : " When I cough , I make my little hand a fist ; when I sneeze , I make my little hand flat ; when I yawn , I hold my little hand in front ...
Page 274
... problem with me because I'm white , I'm trapped . There is no room for change . Race moves the debate from moral questions - how are you acting ? - to narrow , nationalist ones - what colour are you ? what group do you belong to ...
... problem with me because I'm white , I'm trapped . There is no room for change . Race moves the debate from moral questions - how are you acting ? - to narrow , nationalist ones - what colour are you ? what group do you belong to ...
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