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Main : Apartheid, fiction, human rights, Jewish history ISBN: 9781875559213 0.260 kgs 198 x 128 mm 172 pp
Safe Houses
Rose Zwi Instant Download Set against the escalating violence of the last years of the Apartheid regime, Safe Houses tells the story of three families – the Sibiyas, the Singers, the Sterns – who are inextricably bound by love and hate, hope and betrayal. Ruth and Lola are drawn into the struggle against Apartheid, but feel marginal: it is difficult to find solutions when one is part of the problem. Can love and hope survive an evil political system that indiscriminately devours both the guilty and the innocent? Against all odds, a friendship develops between Lola’s uncle Zalman, a resident of a home for the aged, and Mr Sibiya, a black cleaner. Both understand the true complexity of the situation. Two of Mr Sibiya’s children have left the country to become freedom fighters; the two who remain are faced with the problem of fighting oppression from within the system, or taking up arms against it. Zalman, with his Eastern European history, knows that no amount of privilege can insulate the whites against the world outside their high walls.
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Awards
1993 Top Twenty Title Listener Women's Book Festival, New Zealand 1994 Australian Human Rights Award for fiction
Reviews
Write a review. ‘… this is an intricate, warmly-written novel about a time of extraordinary upheaval, both personal and political. Zwi rarely misses a beat.’ Helen Elliott, The Sunday Age'Rose Zwi is a straight talker with something worth saying …’ Peg Job, Canberra Times'… after reading Safe Houses one has the feeling of knowing something about South Africa, something more than statistics and sound grabs … [and] I want to read more of Rose Zwi.’ Kate Veitch, Australian Book Review |
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