A blade of grass

Resource Information

The work A blade of grass represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A blade of grass

Statement of responsibility

Lewis DeSoto

Creator

• DeSoto, Lewis, 1954-

Subject

• Canadian fiction -- South African authors
• Electronic books
• Farm life -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• South Africa -- Fiction
• Canadian fiction
• Women farmers -- Fiction
• Women, White -- Fiction
• South Africa -- Race relations -- Fiction

Genre

• Electronic books
• Fiction
• Canadian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Set on the border between South Africa and an unnamed country, A Blade of Grass is the taut story of two women, one white and one black, who struggle to save their farm and, ultimately, their lives. Marit, a young woman of British descent, recently orphaned and newly wed, comes to live with her husband, Ben, on their new farm. Despite its Edenic setting, the land explodes in violence and tragedy, and Marit finds herself caught in a tug of war between the local Afrikaner community and the black workers who live on her farm. Frightened, she turns to the only person who can help her, a young woman who is now also alone in the world -- her maid, Tembi. As the novel builds to its devastating climax, it unfolds a tale both terrifying and hopeful, moving beyond its own time and place to become a universal story of the price of freedom

Cataloging source

RECBK

Dewey number

823.92

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9369.4.D475

Literary form

unknown

Nature of contents

dictionaries