With a delicate but ironic touch leavened with gentle humor, the awardwinning author of "Another Year in Africa, " "Safe Houses, " and "Last Walk in Naryshkin Park" presents characters ranging from a political activist under house arrest to the child of immigrant parents caught between two cultures.
A new novel by the 1994 winner of the Human Rights Award for Fiction. It tells the story of the child Ruth and how difficult it is for her to understand political violence. Set in the Jewish community in South Africa in the late 1920s