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Zirk Van Den Berg (Autor)

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2018
304 Seiten
Kwela (Verlag)
9780795708800 (ISBN)

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German South West Africa, 1905. The disillusioned soldier Siegfried Bock’s path crosses that of Lisbeth Löwenstein, a poor Jewess who has to marry a German settler she’s hardly met, the Damara man Mordegai Guruseb who escaped from a concentration camp, and the pseudoscientist Albert Pitzer. As fates intertwine their humanity is severely tested.

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German South West Africa, 1905. The sickly Siegfried Bock comes to the colony to prove his mettle. But soon he becomes disillusioned when he witnesses the effect of the German command to kill Hereros and suppress any Nama uprising. Lisbeth Löwenstein, a poor Jewess, has to marry a German settler she’s hardly met. When he falls from his horse and dies, she chooses to flee from his farm with his Nama labourers. Mordegai Guruseb, a Damara man, escapes from a concentration camp where Hereros are dying from the harsh conditions. Before long his freedom is threatened once again. And then there is the failed doctor Albert Pitzer whose pseudoscience is debunked by Alvaus Luipert, a schoolmaster and Nama leader who revolts against the colonial dispensation. Against the unspoilt landscape of German South West Africa, the gripping entanglement of these characters’ fates builds to a denouement that will severely test their humanity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• ISBN-13: 9780795708800 / 9780795708800