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The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
Was R180.00Now R153.00(eB 1530)
Delivery time: Usually within 5 working days. Average customer rating: Country: United KingdomFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Virago Press LtdISBN: 9781844084975 Publication date: March 2008 Length: 216mm Width: 135mm Edition: Export ed Pages: 256
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
Author: Lauren Liebenberg
Was R180.00 Now R153.00
* Set against the convulsive backdrop of war and a country's death throes, explores themes of loss, guilt and redemption in an Africa that is at once grotesque, poignant and beautiful; told through the story of two young girls Rhodesia - a place of great beauty, but also of terrible, man-made, tragedy. The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam is, above all else, a magical evocation of childhood; at times laugh-out-loud funny, at others heartbreakingly sad. It tells the story of two young sisters, Nyree and Cia O'Callohan, who live on a remote farm in the East of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather, Oupa, theirs is a seductive world laced with African paganism, bastardised Catholicism and the lore of the Brothers Grimm - until their idyll is shattered forever by their orphaned cousin, Ronin. His arrival at the farm sets in motion a chain of events that result in tragedy and the loss of innocence. ** 'Full of memorable characters and flavoured with the intensity of childhood, this is a debut that stays with the reader long after the last page is read' WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY
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