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''Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this'' Observer

''Fascincating and engrossing'' Literary Review

How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - ''Motherland'', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country''s turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family''s charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.

KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company

ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society

ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15

ANNA, mistress of the Cape''s grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband

MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikane

Moederland

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      Publisher John Murray Press
      Published 1/25/2024
      ISBN-13 9781399810791
      978-1399810791
      ISBN-10 1399810790
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this'' Observer

      ''Fascincating and engrossing'' Literary Review

      How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - ''Motherland'', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country''s turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family''s charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.

      KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company

      ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society

      ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15

      ANNA, mistress of the Cape''s grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband

      MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikane

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