Fiela's Child (Phoenix Fiction S.) - Softcover

Matthee, Dalene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226510832 ISBN 13: 9780226510835

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

By Matthee, Dalene ( Author ) [ Fiela's Child By Sep-1992 Paperback

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Set in nineteenth-century rural south Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Kometie and a white, three-year-old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raised Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him.

About the Author:

Dalene Matthee, born in South Africa in 1938, is the author of a collection of short stories, Die Judasbok, and five novels, including Circles in a Forest and The Mulberry Forest.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0226510832
• ISBN 13: 9780226510835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360