Mittee - Couverture souple

Rooke, Daphne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1592642063 ISBN 13 : 9781592642069

Editeur : Toby Press, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Rooke Daphne

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Daphne Rooke (born 1914), was born in Boksburg, Transvaal, of an English father and Afrikaans mother, and grew up in Durban. She later moved to Zululand, where A Grove of Fever Trees, her first novel, was set. During, the 1930s she worked as a journalist in South Africa. She married an Australian and moved there with him. Mittee was published in 1951 and became an international bestseller. It was followed in subsequent years by a series of striking novels on turbulent South African themes. Rooke ultimately moved to England

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1952, Mittee was an international bestseller. Set in late nineteenth-century Transvaal, it dramatizes the intense, ambiguous love-hate relationship between Selina, a young colored servant girl, and her privileged white mistress, Mittee, and explores the roles forced upon the two women, fierce rivals for the attentions of the same man. Juxtaposing violence and sexuality the author crosses gender and racial boundaries in this powerful exposure of a patriarchal, puritanical and divided society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Toby Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592642063
• ISBN 13: 9781592642069
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible