A sin of omission
Poland, Marguerite2022
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Torn from his parents as a boy in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then returned to southern Africa's Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors, and That Woman - seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to fnd his mother and take her a message that will break her heart. In this raw and compelling story, Marguerite Poland employs her considerable experience as a writer and specialist in South African languages to recreate the polarised, duplicitous world of Victorian colonialism and its betrayal of the very people it claimed to be enlightening.
Main title:
A sin of omission / Marguerite Poland.
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Imprint:
London : EnvelopeBooks, 2022.London : EnvelopeBooks, 2022.
Collation:
420 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781838172039 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2510877