The Resource If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais
If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais
Resource Information
The item If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic. Eight months pregnant with a child she does not want, Zodwa carefully guards secrets that could get her killed if discovered. Meanwhile, at a rural farm outside the city, estranged sisters Ruth and Delilah each face a personal crisis that sends them back to their childhood home to lick their wounds. They live together in an uneasy peace until the day that they find a newborn baby on their doorstep. Abandoned with only a blanket wrapped around him, the child will change everything for the sisters, upending what they believed about race, motherhood, and the power of the past. As the mystery surrounding the infant's discovery grows, Zodwa, Ruth, and Delilah become inextricably linked. What follows is a mesmerizing look at family, identity, and the lengths to which the human heart will go to protect itself and the ones it loves"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- If you want to make god laugh
- Title
- If you want to make god laugh
- Statement of responsibility
- Bianca Marais
- Subject
-
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- trueSouth Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976
- trueSocial conflict
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueSouth Africa -- History -- 1961-1994
- trueWomen -- Interpersonal relations
- South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 -- Fiction
- trueTeenage pregnancy
- trueRace relations
- trueSisters
- trueRape victims
- Apartheid -- South Africa -- Fiction
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueAbandoned infants
- trueFamilies
- trueFemale friendship
- trueStripteasers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic. Eight months pregnant with a child she does not want, Zodwa carefully guards secrets that could get her killed if discovered. Meanwhile, at a rural farm outside the city, estranged sisters Ruth and Delilah each face a personal crisis that sends them back to their childhood home to lick their wounds. They live together in an uneasy peace until the day that they find a newborn baby on their doorstep. Abandoned with only a blanket wrapped around him, the child will change everything for the sisters, upending what they believed about race, motherhood, and the power of the past. As the mystery surrounding the infant's discovery grows, Zodwa, Ruth, and Delilah become inextricably linked. What follows is a mesmerizing look at family, identity, and the lengths to which the human heart will go to protect itself and the ones it loves"--
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Marais, Bianca
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Apartheid
- South Africa
- South Africa
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064410466
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593085820
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057855879
- Label
- If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064410466
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593085820
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057855879
Subject
- trueAbandoned infants
- Apartheid -- South Africa -- Fiction
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueFemale friendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueRace relations
- trueRape victims
- trueSisters
- trueSocial conflict
- trueSouth Africa -- History -- 1961-1994
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- trueSouth Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976
- South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 -- Fiction
- trueStripteasers
- trueTeenage pregnancy
- trueWomen -- Interpersonal relations
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