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- Title
- Parts unknown / Zirk van den Berg.
- Author
- Van den Berg, Zirk
- Publication
- Cape Town : Kwela Books, 2018.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT6592.32.A4863 P37 2018g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 297 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "German South-West Africa, 1905. A time of war and upheaval. The frail Siegfried Bock comes to the protectorate as a soldier to prove his mettle. But soon he becomes disillusioned when he witnesses atrocities he cannot forget. Lisbeth Löwenstein is here to marry a man she hardly remembers, a settler who has sent money to her impoverished parents in exchange for her hand in marriage. Mordegai Guruseb escapes from a concentration camp where prisoners are dying from deprivation. But before long his freedom is threatened once again.And then there is failed doctor Albert Pitzer who considers himself a scientist and hopes to gather data that prove his theories. However, Alvaus Luipert, a local schoolmaster, will not stand for his arrogant assumptions and demeaning methods. In the vast, majestic landscape of German South-West Africa, the fates of these five people intertwine and each one's humanity is tested to the limit."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- English fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- Also available in Afrikaans as: Die vertes in
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued in electronic format.
- ISBN
- 9780795708794
- 0795708793
- 978079570880 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780795708817 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1062403055
- 1062403055
- SCSB-9255638
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries