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Winner of The Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize

Torn from his parents and tribe as a boy in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury to be a rural preacher in Southern Africa’s Cape Colony.

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.

A Sin of Omission

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Winner of The Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott PrizeTorn from his parents and tribe as... Read more

    Publisher: EnvelopeBooks
    Publication Date: 05/05/2022
    ISBN13: 9781838172039, 978-1838172039
    ISBN10: 1838172033

    Number of Pages: 420

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    Winner of The Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize

    Torn from his parents and tribe as a boy in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury to be a rural preacher in Southern Africa’s Cape Colony.

    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.

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