Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais

Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais

Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children after her husband's death. Told through Beauty and Robin's alternating perspectives, the narratives interweave to create a rich and complex tapestry of the emotions and tensions at the heart of Apartheid South Africa. Hum If You Don't Know the Words is a beautifully rendered look at loss, racism, and the creation of family.

Bianca Marais is the author of Hum If You Don't Know the Words. She holds a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, where she now teaches creative writing. Before turning to writing, she started a corporate training company and volunteered with Cotlands, where she assisted care workers in Soweto with providing aid for HIV/AIDS orphans. Originally from South Africa, she now resides in Toronto with her husband.

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ISBN 13	9780735218260
ISBN 10	0735218269
Title	Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Author	Bianca Marais
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prentice Hall Press
Year published	2017-07-11
Number of pages	432
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