Coconut
by
 
Matlwa, Kopano.

Title
Coconut

Author
Matlwa, Kopano.

ISBN
9781431403899
 
9781770093362

Personal Author
Matlwa, Kopano.

Publication Information
Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana, 2007.

Physical Description
1 online resource (190 pages)

General Note
"Winner of the European Union Literary Award"--Cover.
 
"Joint winner of the 2010 Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature"--Cover.
 
Eighth impression 2011.

Abstract
Tells the story of two extraordinary young women who have grown up black in white suburbs and must now struggle to find their identities. The rich and pampered Ofilwe has taken her privileged lifestyle for granted, and must confront her swiftly dwindling sense of culture when her soulless world falls apart. Meanwhile, the hip and sassy Fiks is an ambitious go-getter desperate to leave her vicious past behind for the glossy sophistication of city life, but finds Johannesburg to be more complicated and unforgiving than she expected.

Subject Term
Youth -- South Africa -- Fiction.
 
Blacks -- Race identity -- South Africa -- Fiction.
 
Culture conflict -- Fiction.
 
Blacks -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00833987
 
Culture conflict. (OCoLC)fst00885099
 
Youth. (OCoLC)fst01183341
 
Roman.

Geographic Term
South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
 
Englisch.
 
Südafrika

Electronic Access
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10559338
 
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007327628-b.html
 
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007327628-d.html