Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times
$26.24
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
24 April 2018
Summary
A powerful and timely novel from ‘South Africa’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’.
‘Heart-wrenching’.
With urgency and tenderness Evening Primrose explores issues of race, gender and the medical profession through the eyes of a junior doctor.
When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, her ambition is tested as she faces the stark reality of South Africa’s public healthcare system.
As she leaves her deeply religious mother and ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473662285 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473662281 |
| Author: | Kopano Matlwa |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 24 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
‘Matlwa is South Africa’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.’ - Rosie Rowell, The Bookseller
It’s a daring and uniquely South African story. - Marie Claire, South Africa on COCONUTMatlwa is obviously a talent to be reckoned with … This is sassy, in-your-face, intelligent writing. - The Witness, South Africa, on COCONUTOne of the most culturally relevant reads of the year - City Press, South Africa, on COCONUTKopano Matlwa
Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African author whose bestselling first novel, Coconut, written when she was 21 years old, went on to in the European Union Literary Award and was joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her second novel, Spilt Milk made the long list for the 2011 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Matlwa is also winner of Aspen Ideas Award for medical innovation and is currently reading for a DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. Her third novel Evening Primrose will be published by Sceptre in 2017.
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