The Innocence of Roast Chicken

A Novel

Jo-Anne Richards (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2019
Picador Africa (Verlag)
978-1-77010-691-8 (ISBN)

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The Innocence of Roast Chicken focuses on an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape and their idyllic life on their grandparents’ farm, seen through the eyes of the little girl, Kate, and the subtle web of relationships that is shattered by a horrifying incident in the mid-1960s. Scenes from Kate’s early life are juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when Kate, now married to Joe, a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria that is gripping the nation. Her despair, both with her marriage and with the national situation, resolutely returns to a brutal incident one Christmas day when Kate was thrust into an awareness of what lay beneath her blissful childhood. Beautifully constructed, The Innocence of Roast Chicken is painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing.

JO-ANNE RICHARDS is a South African novelist and journalist, whose work has been published internationally. She teaches creative writing through Allaboutwriting and lectures at Wits University in Johannesburg. Her most recent novel, My Brother’s Book, was published by Picador Africa. Jo-Anne’s first novel, The Innocence of Roast Chicken, was originally published by Headline Review in the UK. When it first appeared, it topped the South African bestseller list in its first week and remained there for 15 weeks.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Picador Africa Heritage Series
Verlagsort	Illovo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-77010-691-X / 177010691X
ISBN-13	978-1-77010-691-8 / 9781770106918
Zustand	Neuware