Kremetartekspedisie. English

The expedition to the baobab tree : a novel / Wilma Stockenstrom ; translated from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee.

First Archipelago Books edition.

New York : Archipelago Books, 2014.

129 pages ; 20 cm

"In J.M.Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerfully symbolic story in the voice of a slave that explores the depths of imagination, isolation, fear, and love. A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to various masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree"-- Provided by publisher.

English

June 02, 2015

Enslaved women > Fiction.