* A dramatic and compelling portrait of two women's lifelong relationship set against the backdrop of half a century of apartheid in South Africa
Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954 and grew up on a farm in the Caledon district of South Africa's Cape. She studied philosophy, languages and literature at the universities of Stellenbosch, Amsterdam and Witwatersrand, where she now lectures in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch.
THE WAY OF THE WOMEN combines the stark intensity of a remarkable death-bed chamber piece, which none the less contains humour, with a compendious sweep from 19th-century boomtime in the Cape to the Angolan war - GUARDIANAmbitious and loaded with a narrative energy you will not find - at the same pitch or in the same range - in the work of any of the big names in South African writing... A masterpiece has arrived - South African SUNDAY TIMESA polyphonic novel that sows many voices into its fertile soil... A narrative that focuses a wide sweep of events and emotions into the bond of mistress and maid - INDEPENDENT
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