Die verevrou

Two women's lives, told in alternating strands, are bound together by ostrich feathers. From 1948 Liora grows up among the ostriches of Finisterre, her family's Algerian farm, at odds with her harsh Corsican father and devoted to Moshe, a Jewish visitor from the Little Karoo who seems close to her French mother. As the war of independence turns the country violent, she nurses wounded men in Algiers, then flees in 1962 to Paris and learns to dress plumes. Decades later she travels to Oudtshoorn to find Moshe. Meanwhile Candice, a coloured girl from Oudtshoorn, falls for Walter, a white boy, in the years of apartheid, and leaves for England and Paris. By 1992 she is back near De Rust, striding about on stilts and selling feather wares to visitors, and the two women meet.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

320 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Algeria, France, South Africa

First published

2019 by Human & Rousseau

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9780798170505 (original)