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One Tongue Singing

(2005)
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Camille Pascal, a young French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and her small daughter, Zara, during the closing years of the apartheid regime. The family settles amongst a wine-growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the system. Interwoven with Camille's story is that of Jake Coleman, a painter with an international reputation, a deep-seated fear of failure, and a complicated private life. One Tongue Singing explores some of the different faces of power, both in the ways it operates between individuals and in societies.

Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"Sensetive and sharp and charged with authentic passion, this is a book that sings in a tongue of liquid fire." - André Brink


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