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Wan : a novel

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    Publisher:
    Freehand Books, 2022
    Note: Alberta Municipal Affairs' Public Library Services Branch

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  • Author: Promislow, Dawn
    Date:
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    2022
    Summary:

    "Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of complicity and guilt, of privilege, and of the immeasurable value of art and of life.Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of complicity and guilt, of privilege, and of the immeasurable value of art and of life."

    Contents:
    • Cover
    • Copyright page
    • Dedication
    • Start of content
    • Acknowledgements
    • A Note on the Type
    • About the Author
    Genre:
    Historical fiction
    Subject(s): Anti-apartheid activists | Fiction | Nineteen seventies | Women artists
    Original Publisher: Calgary [Alberta], Freehand Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781990601002
    Collection(s)/Series: Read Alberta eBook Collection