by PamelaJooste (Author)
When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Jan 2000
ISBN 10: 0552997587
ISBN 13: 9780552997584
Book Overview: In apartheid South Africa, a poor Jewish girl and a 'white kaffir' form a lifetime friendship.