[home] [news] [this year's award] [publishers] [libraries] [award archive] [faqs] [dublin city public libraries] [IMPAC] [contact us]
|
Books
nominated for the 2000 Award
|
Click here for the complete A-Z listing of nominated titles. |
|||
|
Book Information |
|
|||
Dance
with a Poor Man's Daughter
by
|
ISBN:0552997579 (UK) |
Find out more about this author on these sites: |
||
|
Dance
with a Poor Man's Daughter
|
||||
| Other
books by this author:
Frieda and Min
|
"My name is Lily Daniels and I live
in the Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree
in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grand-mother; my Aunt
Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth
much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother,
don't live here anymore. People say she went on the Kimberley train to
try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could get away with
it even if we didn't believe she would." Through the sharp yet loving
eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole exotic, vivid, vigorous
culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened
its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape
Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of
Lily's past - and future - erupts. Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter
is a p
| |||
[home] [news] [this year's award] [publishers] [libraries] [award archive] [dublin city public libraries] [IMPAC] [faqs] [contact us]
Copyright
© 2007 Dublin City Public Libraries
