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Loading... Skinner's Drift: A Novel (original 2006; edition 2007)by Lisa Fugard
Work InformationSkinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard (2006)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Started very strongly but then she seemed to loose track of her various threads of secrets and none of them seemed quite so inflammatory as expected and it all just petered out in a very dissapointing manner. no reviews | add a review
Ten years after leaving South Africa, Eva van Rensburg returns to her dying father, a violent stuttering man whose terrible secret Eva has kept since she was a child, and to Skinner's Drift, the family farm, a tough stretch of land on the Limpopo River where jackals and leopards still roam. In this beautiful, brave, and extraordinarily moving first novel, Lisa Fugard paints a haunting portrait of a young woman coming to terms with her family's violent past as her homeland, South Africa, confronts its own bloody history. Fugard moves with extraordinary agility between intimate and revelatory domestic scenes and the fiercely challenging land, "like the ravaged hide of some ancient beast." This is a powerful story from a stunning new writer. No library descriptions found. |
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