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KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company   ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society   ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15  ANNA, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband  MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery   ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British   ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation'   CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid  PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745512923409,"sku":"NGR9781399810791","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49887121375505,"sku":"GOR013668289","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50806989914385,"sku":"GOR014079091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121148883217,"sku":"NLS9781399810791","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1399810790.jpg?v=1750987439"},{"product_id":"moederland-book-cato-pedder-9781399810814","title":"Moederland","description":"WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN  'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer  'Fascincating and engrossing' Literary Review  How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.  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Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives of her female ancestors, it is a history of South Africa like no other, told from the perspective of women long silenced in the historical narrative. It asks, what were they doing while white supremacy was constructed?   In Moederland, Cato Pedder travels the centuries from the 1600s, when Cape Town was a remote outpost of the Dutch East India Company, to the kraal of a Zulu king in the 1800s before doubling back to Europe and then culminating with the English Quaker aunt who defies apartheid to marry across the colour line. As anti-racist campaigners call out the statue of Jan Smuts in Parliament Square, Cato painstakingly excavates the long-forgotten life stories of the women of her prehistory, unpacking the legacy of her Afrikaans heritage and bringing their collective shame into the light.   Moederland brilliantly sits at the borderline between personal history and memoir and shares themes with The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, The Wife's Tale by Aida Edemariam and Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja, both of which use unknown forebears to throw new light on the troubled past. It will also appeal to readers of Damon Galgut's Booker Prize winning novel, The Promise.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52387815719185,"sku":"GOR014511524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53178903560465,"sku":"GOR014793864","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781399810807.jpg?v=1758363162"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-cato-pedder.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}