Upturned Earth (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
188
Utgivningsdatum
2019-09-04
Förlag
Holland Park Press
Dimensioner
213 x 137 x 15 mm
Vikt
295 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781907320910

Upturned Earth

av Karen Jennings
Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-09-04
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Upturned Earth is set in Namaqualand, the copper mining district of the Cape Colony, during the winter of 1886. William Hull arrives at the town to take up the position of magistrate, a position that no one else wanted to accept because of the bleak and depressing locale. He finds that the town is run by the Cape Copper Mining Company and the despotic mine superintendent, Townsend. Meanwhile, Molefi Noki, a Xhosa mining labourer, is intent on finding his brother who was sent to jail for drunkenness and has yet to be released. Set against the background of a diverse community, made up of white immigrants, indigenous people and descendants of Dutch men and native women, we are given insight into the daily life of a mining town and the exploitation of workers, harsh working conditions and deep-seated corruption that began with the start of commercial mining in South Africa in the 1850s and which continue until now. While Upturned Earth is a novel about the past, its concerns are very much founded in the present.
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Karen Jennings was born in Cape Town in 1982. She has Master's degrees in both English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her debut novel Finding Soutbek was published by Holland Park Press in 2012, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature 2013. Other books by Karen Jenning include: Away from the Dead, short stories, Holland Park Press, 2014, Travels with My Father, an autobiographical novel, Holland Park Press, 2016, and Space Inhabited by Echoes, Holland Park Press, 2018. In 2010 her short story From Dark won the Africa Region prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Mia and the Shark won the English section of the Maskew Miller Longman short story competition in 2009 and is now studied in schools. Karen was one of the featured authors in the South African Sunday Times Lifestyle magazine's The Future Fiction Edition to mark the 20th anniversary of South Africa's democracy. Karen currently lives in Brazil.

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