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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
