Product Description
Fiela’s Child
Author: Dalene Matthee
Format: Paperback
A child wanders too far into the Knysna Forest. He never returns. Nine years later, two government officials working on a census find a white child living with a coloured family in the mountains on the other side of the forest. They take him away from the stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and give him back to his 'original' family.
Whipped into using a new name and calling strangers 'ma' and 'pa', Benjamin is so stunned that he cannot cry and waits for Fiela to reclaim him. But Fiela, powerless before authority, never comes. So Benjamin has to grow up before he can go in search of the truth.
About the Author
Acclaimed and well-loved South African author Dalene Matthee died on the 20th of February 2005. Matthee was born in Riversdale in the Southern Cape. After studying music, she began writing short stories and novels. Most of her novels are on-going bestsellers, and have been translated into more than fourteen languages. Penguin Books is her English language publisher and has published Fiela's Child, Circles in a Forest, The Day the Swallows Spoke, and in 2004, DreamForest, which is the translation of Toorbos. Her last novel, Die Uitgespoeldes, which was completed shortly before her death, was published by Penguin in 2005 in both its original Afrikaans, and in English (entitled Driftwood). To launch the Penguin Modern Classics Series, Penguin reissued Fiela's Child and Circles in a Forest. http://www.dalenematthee.co.za
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