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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... roads . And the under - layer is what makes a road . The tar is just a protection layer . I heard the other day that there is a group of white road workers . They get paid so little that they go and look for work at firm B while they ...
... roads . And the under - layer is what makes a road . The tar is just a protection layer . I heard the other day that there is a group of white road workers . They get paid so little that they go and look for work at firm B while they ...
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... road , Peet throws his 4x4 in a different direction . ' I want to show you something ? In a haze of phlegmatic digestion we drive half - dozing into the eastern Free State . The last cosmos of the season stands in pink and white sheets ...
... road , Peet throws his 4x4 in a different direction . ' I want to show you something ? In a haze of phlegmatic digestion we drive half - dozing into the eastern Free State . The last cosmos of the season stands in pink and white sheets ...
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... road would enable a teacher and a clinic sister to work among them . Should we build it ? Or should we rather spend the money on building new roads link- ing main towns and maintaining the existing roads and infrastructure ? ' Right ...
... road would enable a teacher and a clinic sister to work among them . Should we build it ? Or should we rather spend the money on building new roads link- ing main towns and maintaining the existing roads and infrastructure ? ' Right ...
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