Hum If You Don't Know the Words

by Bianca Marais

Book Overview

Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children after her husband's death. Told through Beauty and Robin's alternating perspectives, the narratives interweave to create a rich and complex tapestry of the emotions and tensions at the heart of Apartheid South Africa. Hum If You Don't Know the Words is a beautifully rendered look at loss, racism, and the creation of family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735218269
• ISBN13: 9780735218260
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"