The Scattering - Couverture rigide

Kubuitsile, Lauri

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1838221522 ISBN 13 : 9781838221522

Editeur : DAS EDITIONS, 2025

Synopsis

"I, the great general of the German soldiers, send this letter to the Hereros... Any Herero found inside the German frontier, with or without a gun or cattle, will be executed. I shall spare neither women nor children. I shall give the order to drive them away and fire on them. Such are my words to the Herero people."

South-West Africa, 1904: When General Lothar von Trotha, military commander of the German colonial forces, issues the extermination order, the Herero people are forced to flee into the desert, seeking safety in British Bechuanaland. Tjipuka, a young Herero mother, escapes the massacre with her baby but is later captured and sent to work in the death camps of Luderitz. There, she must find the courage - and the will - to survive against all odds.


The Transvaal, 1899: Riette's nursing ambitions are crushed when she is forced into marriage with an older neighbour. When he is taken captive and their farm is set ablaze under Britain's scorched-earth policy, she and his daughters must endure the horrors of the British concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Against the backdrop of two of southern Africa's most brutal colonial wars at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Scattering traces the fates of two remarkable women whose paths cross after each has suffered the devastation and dislocation of war.

A haunting and deeply moving historical novel, Kubuitsile weaves an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and a powerful reminder of history's forgotten atrocities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

LAURI KUBUITSILE is an award-winning writer and the author of numerous works of fiction for both children and adults. She has won several prestigious literary awards, including the Golden Baobab Prize for children's writing, an honour she received twice, the Bessie Head Literature Award, and the Botswerere Prize for Creative Writing. She was also a finalist for the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story, In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata. Her works are widely published and studied in schools across Botswana and South Africa. She lives in Botswana and writes full time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: DAS EDITIONS
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1838221522
• ISBN 13: 9781838221522
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible