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Promislow, Dawn.
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Anti-apartheid activists -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Human rights workers -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Privilege (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
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Promislow, Dawn.
Anti-apartheid activists -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Human rights workers -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Privilege (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
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Wan
: a
novel
/ Dawn Promislow.
by
Promislow, Dawn.
Freehand Books, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION PRO
Subjects
Anti-apartheid activists -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Human rights workers -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Privilege (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781988298993 (trade pbk.)
Description:
230 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Fiction
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