A Sin of Omission
Book description
Winner of The Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
Torn from his parents and tribe as a boy in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury to be a rural preacher in Southern Africa's…
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Marguerite Poland vividly brings to life a period in South Africa’s history about which I knew nothing, and she proves to be a masterful storyteller.
In this book, I felt the horror and the tension of those 19th-century days before apartheid was finalized – but when the roots of what was to come were very much present.
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