Mother to Mother

Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. First Beacon Press edition. Half-cloth binding, dust jacket, vi, 210 pages; 23 cm. Pages clean and unmarked, very minor edge wear; else near fine(++) in fine jacket in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780807009482, 9780807009499

An American girl is murdered by blacks in 1993 South Africa while preparing them for democracy. The novel is in the form of a letter to the girl's mother, from the mother of one of the killers, describing the way apartheid brutalized her son. A first novel based on real events by a black South African writer. About the Author: After leaving Guguletu, Sindiwe Magona earned her master's degree at Columbia University. She currently lives in New York, where she works at the United Nations. She has contributed to The New York Times and her work has been anthologized in Under African Skies.