Coconut
R240.00
Coconut is a story that deals with growing up as a black child in a white world – the story of two young women in the white suburbs of Johannesburg, who go to private schools and have white friends. The rich and pampered Ofilwe has taken her privileged lifestyle for granted and must confront her swiftly dwindling sense of culture when her soulless world falls apart. Meanwhile, the hip and sassy Fiks, an ambitious go-getter desperate to leave her brutal past behind for the sophistication of city life, finds it to be more complicated and unforgiving than she expected. All that both these young women want is to grow and to be loved, but most importantly, to fit in. Fitting in, it seems, comes at the cost of one’s blackness – too white for black, and too black for white.
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| Weight | 0500 kg |
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| Dimensions | 235 × 155 × 30 mm |
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Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for her first novel, Coconut, which went on to become a bestseller and a classic South African novel. In 2010, Coconut jointly won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her successive novels, Spilt Milk and Period Pain, were also published to great acclaim, with Period Pain shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Her novels have been translated into close to a dozen international languages. Her latest novel, Bosadi, will be published late 2025. When she is not writing, Kopano works as a public health physician and is passionate about ensuring all people, especially the most disadvantaged, have a fair shot at living a healthy and fulfilling life. She holds a medical degree from the University of Cape Town, a Master’s in Global Health Science and DPhil (PhD) in Population Health, both from Oxford University, where she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Kopano lives in Johannesburg with her husband and three children. |
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9781770093362 |
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