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A hundred years ago, a small settlement sprang up in theNorthern Cape. A rich diversity of people moved in, as the children were born, Vatmaar became a village. A. H. M. Scholtz tells of Oom Chai, who in turn tells of a Vuurmaak, who in turn introduces someone else. Thus a chain of stories is created interlinking the fates of unforgettable characters like Lance-Corporal George Lewis and his Tswana wife, Rush, Sis Bet, Old Chetty, Hendruk, January, Tant Vonnie and her daughters as they recount tales of the Anglo-Boer War, the diamond diggings, court cases and stokvels: the tricksters and the tricked, marriages and funerals, love and betrayal. A Place Called Vatmaar is a panoramic novel: compelling, wise and humane.
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Vatmaar, Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz, Riet de Jong-Goossens
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
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- Titel
- Vatmaar
- Sprache
- Niederländisch
- Autor*innen
- Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz, Riet de Jong-Goossens
- Verlag
- Meulenhoff
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 415
- ISBN10
- 9029051841
- ISBN13
- 9789029051842
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Historische Romane, Liebe, Familie, Verrat
- Originaltitel
- Vatmaar
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- Beschreibung
- A hundred years ago, a small settlement sprang up in theNorthern Cape. A rich diversity of people moved in, as the children were born, Vatmaar became a village. A. H. M. Scholtz tells of Oom Chai, who in turn tells of a Vuurmaak, who in turn introduces someone else. Thus a chain of stories is created interlinking the fates of unforgettable characters like Lance-Corporal George Lewis and his Tswana wife, Rush, Sis Bet, Old Chetty, Hendruk, January, Tant Vonnie and her daughters as they recount tales of the Anglo-Boer War, the diamond diggings, court cases and stokvels: the tricksters and the tricked, marriages and funerals, love and betrayal. A Place Called Vatmaar is a panoramic novel: compelling, wise and humane.