{"title":"South African","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"fugard-lisa-skinners-drift","title":"Fugard, Lisa: Skinner's Drift","description":"\u003cp\u003eFugard, Lisa \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSouth African \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary Fiction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eTen years after leaving South Africa, the country of her birth and the place where her mother died, Eva van Rensburg returns to her dying father, a violent man whose terrible secret Eva has kept since she was a child. In this beautiful first novel, Lisa Fugard paints a haunting portrait of a family careering toward disaster. She vividly describes the isolation of Eva's rebellious and lonely English mother; the desperation of her Afrikaner father as drought destroys his farm; the conflicts among the black farmworkers as the younger generation questions the loyalty and subservience of their elders; and the dangerous silence of a young girl who witnesses too much.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, Fugard has written a profoundly moving family drama, subtly set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil. She moves with extraordinary agility between intimate and revelatory domestic scenes and the fiercely challenging land. This is a powerful story from a stunning new writer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexandria (the library)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48004287365341,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/8235\/9773\/files\/1C770205-4EEA-4600-ABC7-FD1264197AF8.jpg?v=1780599764"}],"url":"https:\/\/alexandriathelibrary.co.za\/collections\/south-african.oembed","provider":"Alexandria (the library)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}