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 326
... shows them around . Under glass lie displayed some of the library's two and a half thousand documents , one of the largest and most important collections of Islamic scriptures in the world , testimony to the mathematical , scientific ...
... shows them around . Under glass lie displayed some of the library's two and a half thousand documents , one of the largest and most important collections of Islamic scriptures in the world , testimony to the mathematical , scientific ...
Page 356
... shows me the grids in the old system that catch the large objects , the channels that control the flow : if the sewage flows too quickly , the solids do not sink ; if it flows too slowly , the wrong kinds of material clump together ...
... shows me the grids in the old system that catch the large objects , the channels that control the flow : if the sewage flows too quickly , the solids do not sink ; if it flows too slowly , the wrong kinds of material clump together ...
Page 357
... shows me the grinder that dumps all the solids into wait- ing trucks . Enormous blades are churning the water into streams across the dam walls . ' Don't bring your hands close to your mouth , ' he warns me urgently . ' In the past ...
... shows me the grinder that dumps all the solids into wait- ing trucks . Enormous blades are churning the water into streams across the dam walls . ' Don't bring your hands close to your mouth , ' he warns me urgently . ' In the past ...
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