Merwe Andre Carl Van Der
Merwe Andre Carl Van Der - Moffie - Paperback
Merwe Andre Carl Van Der - Moffie - Paperback
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Description: Nicholas van der Swart has always known he is different. Unable to live up to the expectations his family his heritage and his culture have of him he grows increasingly diffident and introverted. When at the age of 19, he is conscripted into the South African army he enters a world that is utterly at odds with his every sensibility. Here he will face the scorn and violence of his tormenters but will also find the strength to survive. Although the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa has gone a long way toward exposing and exorcising some of the atrocities committed in the name of Apartheid very little has been revealed about the adversities faced by gays under the regime. Set in Ward 22 during the Angola Bush War that raged from 1966 to 1989 in South - west Africa Moffie transports the reader into the world of a young gay conscript with evocative realism. At turns heart wrenching and humorous told with great sensitivity and infused with hope Moffie is a long overdue account of a vital subject place and time.
Title: Moffie
Author(s): Merwe Andre Carl Van Der
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609450502
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 8/30/2011
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Nicholas van der Swart has always known he is different. Unable to live up to the expectations his family his heritage and his culture have of him he grows increasingly diffident and introverted. When at the age of 19, he is conscripted into the South African army he enters a world that is utterly at odds with his every sensibility. Here he will face the scorn and violence of his tormenters but will also find the strength to survive. Although the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa has gone a long way toward exposing and exorcising some of the atrocities committed in the name of Apartheid very little has been revealed about the adversities faced by gays under the regime. Set in Ward 22 during the Angola Bush War that raged from 1966 to 1989 in South - west Africa Moffie transports the reader into the world of a young gay conscript with evocative realism. At turns heart wrenching and humorous told with great sensitivity and infused with hope Moffie is a long overdue account of a vital subject place and time.
Title: Moffie
Author(s): Merwe Andre Carl Van Der
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609450502
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 8/30/2011
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
