Gardening at Night - Softcover

Awerbuck, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099287358 ISBN 13: 9780099287353

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

Synopsis

Gardening at Night follows the unfolding of a young girl's life through a childhood filled with silences, through adolescence and young womanhood. It is about how much people are the total of their longings, how high drama can also be low comedy. It probes how much of the old century a girl should take with her into the new one, and examines the merging of families in the Eighties and their emerging into the florescence of the Nineties and beyond. It is especially the story of a girl's escape from a ghost town. The South African mining town of Kimberley was created over a hundred years ago when men with buckets scraped out the insides of the earth like a thousand black dentists. Now it is a place where the only tales are those of leaving... A powerful, moving and inspiring debut novel that you won't be able to put down. This paperback book has 246 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.9 x 1.6cm.

About this title

Review:

"The coming-of-age tale is the perfect debut, playing to the debutante's freshness and flaws, and Awerbuck has turned in a bittersweet example of the genre" (Observer)

"Feisty and funky and funny... a remarkable reading adventure. This is a South Africa the international reader has not yet seen: the wood of smallness and ordinariness and quirkiness of everyday life hidden behind the trees of politics" (André Brink)

"An exuberant and nakedly confessional novel" (Cape Times)

Book Description:

A brilliant and uncompromising new voice in fiction from South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099287358
• ISBN 13: 9780099287353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256