Fiela's Child - Softcover

Matthee, Dalene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345333861 ISBN 13: 9780345333865

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1987

Synopsis

Raised by Fiela Kimoetie, a Black woman, after he wanders as a three-year-old into the South African forest, the young man who may be Lukas Van Rooyen, son of Afrikaaners, finds himself forced by the Magistrate to reorient his affections and values

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: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0345333861
• ISBN 13: 9780345333865
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback