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"I was immediately mesmerized...Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting." —Toni Morrison

Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise—young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla's family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

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Publisher: Tin House Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 29, 2015

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780982569184
  • File size: 756 KB
  • Release date: July 29, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780982569184
  • File size: 917 KB
  • Release date: July 29, 2015

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Kindle Book
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Fiction Literature

Languages

English

"I was immediately mesmerized...Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting." —Toni Morrison

Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise—young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla's family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

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