The Resource Shifting colours, Fiona Sussman
Shifting colours, Fiona Sussman
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- Summary
- "This is the sweet memory of Mme, my dear mother. The first sweet memory... Sometimes her laughter bursts into my head or I hear her call me - my name full and round in her mouth. Frustratingly though, as with all the memories I have of Mme, her face always blurs under the pressure of my focus". Celia Mphephu works as a maid for Mr and Mrs Steiner in a leafy, white man's suburb of 1960s Johannesburg. When racial tensions in the country reach fever pitch and the Steiners plan to relocate to England, they offer to adopt Celia's young daughter Miriam and raise her as their own. But Miriam finds England to be very different to the place the Steiners have told her about. And so begins her long journey through the years, back to South Africa, to find her mother and herself. Set against the violent backdrop of apartheid South Africa and then the calm of late twentieth century Britain, 'Shifting colours' traces the lives of a mother and daughter separated by land, sea and heart-rending circumstance
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Note
- Formerly CIP.
- Isbn
- 9780749016418
- Label
- Shifting colours
- Title
- Shifting colours
- Statement of responsibility
- Fiona Sussman
- Title variation
-
- Shifting colors
- Another womans daughter
- Subject
-
- Women household employees -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueNew Zealand fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- truePolitical fiction
- trueRace relations
- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueRacism
- trueSeparated friends, relatives, etc
- trueSouth Africa
- South Africa -- 20th century -- Fiction
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- South Africans -- England -- Fiction
- South Africans -- Fiction
- trueSouth Africans in England
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Adoptees -- Fiction
- trueApartheid
- trueCulture conflict
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueEngland -- Social life and customs
- Families -- Fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueInterracial adoption
- trueJohannesburg, South Africa
- trueMothers and daughters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This is the sweet memory of Mme, my dear mother. The first sweet memory... Sometimes her laughter bursts into my head or I hear her call me - my name full and round in her mouth. Frustratingly though, as with all the memories I have of Mme, her face always blurs under the pressure of my focus". Celia Mphephu works as a maid for Mr and Mrs Steiner in a leafy, white man's suburb of 1960s Johannesburg. When racial tensions in the country reach fever pitch and the Steiners plan to relocate to England, they offer to adopt Celia's young daughter Miriam and raise her as their own. But Miriam finds England to be very different to the place the Steiners have told her about. And so begins her long journey through the years, back to South Africa, to find her mother and herself. Set against the violent backdrop of apartheid South Africa and then the calm of late twentieth century Britain, 'Shifting colours' traces the lives of a mother and daughter separated by land, sea and heart-rending circumstance
- Summary
- Celia Mphephu, a black servant in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, chooses to allow her employers to adopt her daughter, Miriam, when they flee racial tensions in South Africa for England, setting mother and daughter on diverging paths
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10384223
- Cataloging source
- UKMGB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sussmann, Fiona
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women household employees
- South Africans
- Race relations
- Race relations
- Women household employees
- South Africans
- South Africans
- Women household employees
- Families
- Adoptees
- Race relations
- Mothers and daughters
- South Africans
- South Africa
- South Africa
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Shifting colours, Fiona Sussman
- Note
- Formerly CIP.
- Bibliography note
- Bibliography: pages 302-303
- 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
- 000052978839
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780749016418
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)872706170
- Label
- Shifting colours, Fiona Sussman
- Note
- Formerly CIP.
- Bibliography note
- Bibliography: pages 302-303
- 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
- 000052978839
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780749016418
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)872706170
Subject
- Women household employees -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueNew Zealand fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- truePolitical fiction
- trueRace relations
- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueRacism
- trueSeparated friends, relatives, etc
- trueSouth Africa
- South Africa -- 20th century -- Fiction
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- South Africans -- England -- Fiction
- South Africans -- Fiction
- trueSouth Africans in England
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Adoptees -- Fiction
- trueApartheid
- trueCulture conflict
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueEngland -- Social life and customs
- Families -- Fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueInterracial adoption
- trueJohannesburg, South Africa
- trueMothers and daughters
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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