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Magona's collection of superb short stories brings a full range of South African women's experiences brilliantly to light. From the village mother leaving her children to work to the maid in service to the white madam, the stories are at once tragic, triumphant, humorous, and sharp, but above all forcefully empowering.

Mother to Mother behandelt die Spätfolgen der Apartheid Südafrikas. Basierend auf den Unruhen, die die ersten freien Wahlen 1993 begleiteten, verbindet Magona Realität und Fiktion und schafft so einen Roman, der auf beklemmende Weise die südafrikanische Gesellschaft und die Ursache ihrer Gewaltbereitschaft porträtiert. Separat erhältlich ist ein Schülerbegleitheft zum Roman, das Lernende mit Study Tips, sorgfältig geschriebenen Annotationen u...

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Books and Bricks" is based on a real event at a primary school in Cape Town, South Africa, shortly after the historic elections in 1994, that ended apartheid and elected the first black president, Nelson Mandela. Change--even change for the better--can be unsettling yet it provides an opportunity to work together to improve the world. This is a compelling and uplifting story about self-reliance and community building. Illustrations.

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È il 1993 e quattro giovani neri uccidono una ragazza americana bianca, pacifista, arrivata a Città del Capo con una borsa di studio alla fine dell'apartheid e alla vigilia delle prime elezioni democratiche. La madre di uno degli assassini scrive all'altra, quella "che ha perso la figlia", cercando di spiegarle in quale inferno - quell'universo concentrazionario dove i giovani sono allo sbando perché le loro mamme sono al lavoro dai bianchi, o...

Sindiwe Magona's poems conspire with her. Even years after being written, they still seem warm from her lips, and it is this residue of her telling them that draws you into their confidence. From the languid innocence of the poems about her village, to her shattering images of Africa at war, Magona leads you headlong into her fireside circle where archetypes flicker like shadows on a face that has seen, and been. Please, Take Photographs is de...

This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.

A powerful collection of stories by the acclaimed author of Mother to Mother This collection of Sindiwe Magona's short fiction, following the publication to wide acclaim of her novel Mother to Mother, ranges in location from rural Transkei, her homeland, and the black township of Guguletu, where she struggled to raise her children, to New York, where she immigrated. With vivid and perceptive prose, Magona creates memorable characters, both hil...

Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the nation's first ever democratic elections in 1993, died just a few yards away from her own permanent residence in Guguletu, Capetown. She...

This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

This is the story of an ambitious, determined woman--deserted by her husband at age 23 with three children under 6--who made it out of the black ghetto of Guguletu, put herself through high school and college, then grad school at Columbia, and obtained a job in New York.