For Want of a Totem (e-bog) af Ndlovu, Vivienne
Ndlovu, Vivienne (forfatter)

For Want of a Totem e-bog

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Zonipha is a rural girl newly inaugurated into the city as a domestic worker. Ambitious but righteous, she seeks to improve herself. Life disagrees and Zonipha finds herself ensnared by an abusive man, her employer. Unable to escape, she falls pregnant with a child who can never know his father, and following her unhappy decision will never know his mother. Fate intervenes at a tuckshop when Eu...
E-bog 161,96 DKK
Forfattere Ndlovu, Vivienne (forfatter)
Forlag Weaver Press
Udgivet 14 april 2018
Længde 98 sider
Genrer Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781779223302
Zonipha is a rural girl newly inaugurated into the city as a domestic worker. Ambitious but righteous, she seeks to improve herself. Life disagrees and Zonipha finds herself ensnared by an abusive man, her employer. Unable to escape, she falls pregnant with a child who can never know his father, and following her unhappy decision will never know his mother. Fate intervenes at a tuckshop when Eugenia, who has longed for child, discovers the abandoned baby. In doing so, she pioneers a movement that seems to defy culture as she tries to encourage the idea of adoption. For Want of a Totem explores the meaning of family and what it means to be a parent. If a child is abandoned, who must raise her. This short but moving novel raised important questions about culture and its adaptability as it responds to contemporary and sometimes contentious issues.