Triomf

Auteur Marlene van Niekerk

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Triomf

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6,⁹⁵

ISBN

9780349112343

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Marlene van Niekerk

Uitgeverij

Abacus

Jaar van uitgifte

2000

Aantal pagina's

592

Waar gaat het over?

* The paperback publication of a significant literary debut from a striking new talent * Offers a fresh perspective on South African life: neither black nor rich white, but the forgotten in-betweens This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbours, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenceless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. TRIOMF relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavour to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.

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