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Innocence of Roast Chicken

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The Innocence of Roast Chicken focuses on an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape and their idyllic life on their grandparents' farm, seen through the eyes of the little girl, Kate, and the subtle web of relationships that is shattered by a horrifying incident in the mid-1960s.

Scenes from Kate's early life are juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when Kate, now married to Joe, a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria that is gripping the nation.

Her despair, both with her marriage and with the national situation, resolutely returns to a brutal incident one Christmas day when Kate was thrust into an awareness of what lay beneath her blissful childhood.Beautifully constructed,The Innocence of Roast Chicken is painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing.

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Product Details
Picador Africa
1770106928 / 9781770106925
eBook (EPUB)
01/09/2019
English
296 pages
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