Child of the River BISAC-GAR019040 ISBN10: 0786887079

ISBN10: 0786887079

One that values success at work over success at home

BarbaraKyle

and Isabel MacLeod

and without realising it

Child of the River BISAC-GAR019040 ISBN10: 0786887079A timeless coming of age tale of heartbreak and triumph set in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid. Persomi is young, white, and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm in the South African Bushveld. Persomi's world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her, escaping the brutality and squalor of her family