{"product_id":"9781399810791-moederland","title":"Moederland","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNine Daughters of South Africa\u003cbr\u003eONE FAMILY, FOUR CENTURIES, NINE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . We need more books like this' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fa\u003ci\u003esc\u003c\/i\u003eincating and engrossing' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did South Africa turn out the way it did? In \u003ci\u003eMoederland\u003c\/i\u003e - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNA, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41063043301473,"sku":"9781399810791","price":17.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_21567685.jpg?v=1712784204","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399810791-moederland","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}