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Agaat, by Marlene Van Niekerk (Used)
Agaat, by Marlene Van Niekerk (Used)
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"I was immediately mesmerized...Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting." --Toni Morrison
Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise—young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla’s family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.
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Where do I begin with this book? I've never read a novel presented in this manner before, with so many points of view, three of which are of the same person, Milla. Milla is heard from in the novel's present through her unspoken thoughts and wordless connection with the title character Agaat, her "adopted" daughter.
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