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Skyline

By: Patricia Schonstein

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Skyline is a vibrant novel set in contemporary times in a run-down block of flats in Long Street, central Cape Town. Through this novel, narrated by an adolescent girl, the book explores the lives of African refugees who come to South Africa seeking a new life and better place, having fled wars and poverty in their own countries. The narrator and her sister befriend a warm and caring refugee from Mozambique called Bernard. They help him battle the terrible sadness and loneliness his country's civil war has inflicted upon him. He in turn, along with others from Zimbabwe, Sudan and Congo, introduces the sisters to the music, wisdom and energy of Africa. There is sadness in this story, for it gives a hard look at the emotional carnage caused by war. But there is also hope and humour and friendship.

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191

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187491513X

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9781874915133

The Apothecary's Daughter

A Novel Set in a Fictitious Place in North Africa

By: Patricia Schonstein

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The Apothecary's Daughter

A Novel Set in a Fictitious Place in North Africa

By: Patricia Schonstein

A nobleman and his wife, an apothecary nun, an astronomer-mathematician, an inquisitor, a poet who is both lover and villain, a portraitist, a queen and loyal servants deftly act out a beautiful drama of tantalizing relationships. They take up their roles in castle and convent, some surrounded by ornate interiors, garbed in velvets and silks, garlanded with precious jewels; while others abide in simple space devoid of art or representation, and dressed in plain linens and dull calicos. This is a wondrous tale, rendered in erotic prose and poetry, stitched through with rich imagery, humour and tenderness. It is also a story of trade and exotic travel, both across the surface of the earth and among the stars.

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246

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1874915180

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9781874915188

Banquet at Brabazan

By: Patricia Schonstein

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Banquet at Brabazan

By: Patricia Schonstein

In Banquet at Brabazan, Patricia Schonstein takes us to the heart of Cape Town's violent inner city, creating a cornucopia of baroque magic realism featuring an angel, drug-money, a muti murder, superb food, romance, a cappella, a miracle or two, librettos, reflections on South Africa's war in Angola, visions of the Afterlife, poetry, Shakespearean drama and various works of fine art, with flashbacks to her wondrous A Time of Angels."--P. [4] of cover.

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269

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Jacana Media

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1770098070

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9781770098077

A Time of Angels

By: Patricia Schonstein,Patricia Schonstein Pinnock

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A Time of Angels

By: Patricia Schonstein,Patricia Schonstein Pinnock

This novel mixes magical realism with the big themes - war, love, death, the afterlife - to devastating effect.

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248

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Corgi

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055277166X

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9780552771665

Skyline

By: Patricia Schonstein-Pinnock

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Skyline

By: Patricia Schonstein-Pinnock

Emprunt de poésie et d'humanité, Skyline jette un regard sans concessions sur l'entrée d'une adolescente dans l'âge adulte, à travers les rues colorées du Cap qui s'éveille au reste de l'Afrique et où se cognent toutes les atrocités contemporaines. Skyline se déroule dans une Afrique du Sud nouvellement démocratique, dirigée par Nelson Mandela. Le pays est devenu un refuge pour les habitants de nombreux pays voisins, déchirés par la guerre et économiquement exsangues. La narratrice est une adolescente qui rêve d'une vie meilleure – et de devenir écrivain. Celle-ci vit avec sa mère et sa soeur dans un immeuble délabré, au centre de la ville du Cap. Le bâtiment abrite des dealers nigériens, des ouvriers du Zimbabwe, des émigrés du Rwanda et du Soudan, des réfugiés du Mozambique, un couple d'aveugles, un couple de travestis, des animateurs de boîtes de nuit, une vieille dame allemande, etc., avec lesquels la narratrice et sa soeur vont se lier d'amitié. L'un des résidents de l'immeuble, Bernard Sebastião, est un survivant de la guerre du Mozambique. Hanté par la perte de ses enfants et de sa femme, il trouve du réconfort dans sa relation avec les deux jeunes filles. Chaque chapitre se termine par la description d'un tableau qu'il a peint, basé sur son interprétation de diverses oeuvres de l'art occidental. C'est à travers ces tableaux que le roman révèle son coeur profond : le questionnement sur la répétition de la guerre et ses effets sur les gens ordinaires.

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201

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Du Sonneur

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2373852837

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9782373852837

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Skyline

Skyline

The Apothecary's Daughter

The Apothecary's Daughter

Banquet at Brabazan

Banquet at Brabazan

A Time of Angels

A Time of Angels

Skyline

Skyline

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