Masquerade - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141520053X ISBN 13: 9781415200537

Synopsis

An autobiography that starts with a mostly miserable childhood in Diep River, Cape Town, and then covers the author's parents' divorce; the forced removal of the family to Athlone; the author being trained and working - as a white - as a legal secretary in the Cape Town CBD, before spending 27 years in 'exile' in Canada after someone alerts the authorities and she is, at 21, is left no choice but to leave; two marriages in Canada, the first, to an Iranian, produces two children, the second to an Egyptian - both end in divorce; her daughter's near fatal car crash; her return to South Africa in the early nineties, where she starts writing full-time and making documentary films, culminating in her directing and acting the lead role in Confessions of a Gambler, based on the novel by the same title which won her the Sunday Times Award. Often the source of controvecy in her Muslim community, the narrative end in triumph when she is invited as special guest to the Dubai Film Festival in 2007, at age 61. Throughout her life, beset with hardship, it is the authors writing and, later, her children that sustain her and help her to survive.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141520053X
• ISBN 13: 9781415200537
• Binding: Paperback