The expedition to the baobab tree
Wilma Stockenström · 2014
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"In J.M.Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerfully symbolic story in the voice of a slave that explores the depths of imagination, isolation, fear, and love. A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to various masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 129
- ISBN
- 9781935744924
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