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A Sin of Omission

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By (author): Marguerite Poland

Torn from his parents as a small child in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then returned to southern Africa's Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors, and That Woman-seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and take her a message that will break her heart. In this raw and compelling story, Marguerite Poland employs her considerable experience as a writer and specialist in South African languages to recreate the polarised, duplicitous world of Victorian colonialism and its betrayal of the very people it claimed to be enlightening. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 05 May 2022
  • Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781838172039

About Marguerite Poland

Marguerite Poland (born 3 April 1950 in Johannesburg) is an award-winning South African writer of books for adults and children. Brought up in the Eastern Cape she studied Social Anthropology and Xhosa took a master's in Zulu literature and folktales and was awarded a doctorate for her study of the cattle of the Zulus. Two of her books - The Mantis and the Moon and Woodash Stars - won South Africa's Percy FitzPatrick Award. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards. Shades has been a matriculation set text for over a decade. And The Keeper received the Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award in 2015 as the title South African book-sellers most enjoyed reading selling and promoting the previous year. Translated into several languages but still largely unknown in the UK the author won South Africa's highest civic award in 2016 for her contribution to the field of indigenous languages literature and anthropology. In 2021 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cecil Rhodes University.

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