Southern Africa
South Africa
Contemporary
Afrikaans
Fiction
A poor white Afrikaner family lives in Triomf, a suburb built on the rubble of Sophiatown. Set in the final days before South Africa's first democratic election, a black comedy of white decline.
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One of the most celebrated Afrikaans novels; a savage self-portrait of Afrikaner decline at the end of apartheid
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editorial-summarynot primary textA poor white Afrikaner family lives in Triomf, a suburb built on the rubble of Sophiatown. Set in the final days before South Africa's first democratic election, a black comedy of white decline. One of the most celebrated Afrikaans novels; a savage self-portrait of Afrikaner decline at the end of apartheid
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