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Dalene Matthee Fiela's Child

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Univ of Chicago Press

USA

1992

Paperback

360

Standard

314853

978-0-226-51083-5

0-226-51083-2

Annotation

Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him.

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