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 14
... start on the track , my friends , it starts long before . Let's get a plan in place . Let each school choose its own athletes according to standard times . And here are the rules : nobody may run whose name is not on The List . No ...
... start on the track , my friends , it starts long before . Let's get a plan in place . Let each school choose its own athletes according to standard times . And here are the rules : nobody may run whose name is not on The List . No ...
Page 108
... starts walking out to the farm . She will not allow anybody to waste her time . ' I cannot believe this child's obsessive selfishness , ' her father complains after he has had to drive up and down the route to the farm searching for her ...
... starts walking out to the farm . She will not allow anybody to waste her time . ' I cannot believe this child's obsessive selfishness , ' her father complains after he has had to drive up and down the route to the farm searching for her ...
Page 190
... starts talking loudly to someone at the back of the hall . The summit starts against a backdrop of war in Burundi , Sierra Leone and the Sudan , a new conflict in Guinea - Bissau , the first interstate war between Ethiopia and Eritrea ...
... starts talking loudly to someone at the back of the hall . The summit starts against a backdrop of war in Burundi , Sierra Leone and the Sudan , a new conflict in Guinea - Bissau , the first interstate war between Ethiopia and Eritrea ...
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