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Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter

Through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole exotic, vivid, vigorous culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past—and future—erupts.

Genre
historical fiction
Setting
africa
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 348 pages

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