| Title : | The Undesirables | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Dave Boling, Author | | Publisher: | Picador | | Publication Date: | 2014 | | Pagination: | 369 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-4472-3323-7 | | Class number: | 813.6 | | Abstract: | While the vastly outnumbered Boer commandos fight in the field, half a million British soldiers torch a flaming path across the South African veld. As they go, the British imprison thousands of displaced Boer families, including Aletta Venter’s, and cast them into newly devised ‘concentration camps’.
In a crowded tent with her mother and siblings, Aletta finds ways to cope with the confinement, privation and loss, but searches for the rarest of comforts – a bit of adolescent normalcy, perhaps even the spark of forbidden romance. Her weapon of choice in this personal battle: a young girl’s powerful sense of hope. | | Contents note: | A deeply moving, intimate portrait of family, friendship and love, set against the backdrop of the Second Boer War at the turn of the Twentieth Century. |
The Undesirables [printed text] / Dave Boling, Author . - [S.l.] : Picador, 2014 . - 369 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-1-4472-3323-7 | Class number: | 813.6 | | Abstract: | While the vastly outnumbered Boer commandos fight in the field, half a million British soldiers torch a flaming path across the South African veld. As they go, the British imprison thousands of displaced Boer families, including Aletta Venter’s, and cast them into newly devised ‘concentration camps’.
In a crowded tent with her mother and siblings, Aletta finds ways to cope with the confinement, privation and loss, but searches for the rarest of comforts – a bit of adolescent normalcy, perhaps even the spark of forbidden romance. Her weapon of choice in this personal battle: a young girl’s powerful sense of hope. | | Contents note: | A deeply moving, intimate portrait of family, friendship and love, set against the backdrop of the Second Boer War at the turn of the Twentieth Century. |
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