Love Interrupted (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: Love Interrupted (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Catalyst Press

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The unsentimental style of these stories packs an emotional punch as they examine post-apartheid patriarchy through the eyes of various observant black women characters. Foreword Reviews -- AIMEE JODOIN

"Woven into the insightful observations on love and relationships is the omnipresent tension between tradition and the ways that being a South African woman today challenges previously held ideas about womens roles.
Many readers will see themselves inand find themselves rooting forthe women in Malatjis solid debut. Kirkus Reviews


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"[E]ach story inventively unfurls a different desire, longing, or frustration" Jacinda Townsend, author Saint Monkey
In her debut collection of short fiction, Reneilwe Malatji invites us into the intimate lives of South African womentheir whispered conversations, their love lives, their triumphs and heartbreaks. This diverse chorus of female voices recounts misadventures with love, family, and community in powerful stories woven together with anger, politics, and wit. Malatji crafts an engaging collection full of rich, memorable characters who navigate work, love, patriarchy, and racism with thoughtfulness, strength, and humor.

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A baby born the wrong color; a college graduate whose African family cannot be seated at a restaurant full of Whites; a man who smashes his Audi through his garage door, killing all his valuable assets in the process. The stories in Reneilwe Malatjis Love Interrupted peel back the gloss from atop South Africas 'Black Diamonds' to reveal the sedimentary layers of truth in the lives of these model middle-class families: each story inventively unfurls a different desire, longing, or frustration. In the paired stories A Young Girls Dream and Its My Turn to Eat, we find Lebo, a former domestic whose aspirations have led her to own a construction company with a contract from the Department of Transport. We find, when Lebo is caught in the cross-hairs at her own elaborate party, that the scars of her difficult childhood remain, denying her complete happiness and peace. The stories of Love Interrupted are just like this, haunting you with their statements about the world of South Africas middle class long after youve finished reading. Jacinda Townsend, author Saint Monkey

About the Author

Reneilwe Malatji was born in South Africa in 1968. She grew up in Turfloop township, in the northern part of South Africa, during the era of apartheid. Her father was an academic and her mother was a school teacher. Malatji trained as a teacher and worked as a subject specialist and advisor to provincial education departments. She recently completed a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and an MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University. She works as a lecturer at the University of Limpopo in South Africa and has an adult son. Love interrupted is her first book.

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Love Interrupted
Life was different in Modjadji village. In Nobody village, where I came from, the role of a wife and makoti, a daughter-in-law, was basically traditional. In this village, being a makoti was as good as being a domestic worker. There was even a song that they sang when they welcomed you as makoti: "mmatswale tlogela dipitsa, mong wa tsona o fihlile." Mother-in-law, stop doing household chores, the person responsible for them has arrived.
As makoti, I was instructed by my mother-in-law to address everyone in the family and all relatives in the plural. The same way Julius Caesar addressed himself as we, us, our and so on. If someone asked me where my mother-in-law was, I had to say, "They went to the shop." The same went for everyone related to my husband, Leshata, including children. When I shared this with a colleague at work, she said, "My dear, it is not only the family and relatives but also their dogs, cats, goats and cows."
Nobody really cared about the fact that I was pregnant. I had to do the cleanin

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781946395030
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 194639503X
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Catalyst Press
Titulo del libro: Love Interrupted (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Malatji, Reneilwe
Fecha de publicación: 2018
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 224
ISBN-13: 9781946395030
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781946395030