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090 $aPR9369.4.N92$bG65 2018
100 1 $aNyathi, Sue,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe gold-diggers :$ba novel /$cSue Nyathi.
246 38 $aGolddiggers
264 1 $aJohannesburg :$bMacmillan,$c2018.
300 $a281 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $3book$atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $3book$aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $3book$avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aIt's 2008 and the height of Zimbabwe's economic demise. A group of passengers is huddled in a Toyota Quantum about to embark on a treacherous expedition to the City of Gold. Amongst them is Gugulethu, who is hoping to be reconciled with her mother; Dumisani, an ambitious young man who believes he will strike it rich, Chamunorwa and Chenai, twins running from their troubled past; and Portia and Nkosi, a mother and son desperate to be reunited with a husband and father they see once a year. They have paid a high price for the dangerous passage to what they believe is a better life; an escape from the vicious vagaries of their present life in Bulawayo. In their minds, the streets of Johannesburg are paved with gold but they will have to dig deep to get close to any gold, dirtying themselves in the process. Told with brave honesty and bold description, the stories of the individual immigrants are simultaneously heart-breaking and heart-warming. -- Publisher's description.
650 0 $aIllegal aliens in literature.
650 0 $aZimbabweans$vFiction.
651 0 $aJohannesburg (South Africa)$xIn literature.
651 0 $aZimbabwe$xIn literature.
650 7 $aSouth African fiction (English)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01127180
655 0 $aSouth African fiction (English)
852 00 $bglx$hPR9369.4.N92$iG65 2018g