An edition of Going back to say goodbye
(2016)
Going back to say goodbye
a boyhood on the mine
by Kenneth De Kok
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"In this finely observed memoir, Kenneth de Kok writes tenderly yet humorously about the relationship between fathers and sons, about family life, and about childhood. The work unearths the physical and psychic landscape of Stilfontein, a small mining community in the Western Transvaal, in the 1950s. The narrator gives voice to his own secret pleasures and fears, while vividly recreating the topography that dominates his world. A sensitive and rare account of the hierarchies, privileges and prejudices of white mining experience, as seen through the eyes of a boy"--Back cover.
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Going back to say goodbye: a boyhood on the mine
2016, Kwela Books
in English
0795707843 9780795707841
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