"Buckingham Palace", District Six

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Title:

"Buckingham Palace", District Six

Author:

Rive, Richard, 1931-

ISBN:

9780864860606

9780864860613

9780864863034

Personal Author:

Rive, Richard, 1931-

Edition:

Educational edition.

Publication Information:

Cape Town : David Philip, 1996.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

"Complete & unabridged."

Abstract:

'Buckingham Palace' is a dingy row of five houses in the heart of District Six, a notorious slum area at the foot of Table Mountain overlooking Cape Town. In this lively novel Richard Rive traces this close community through its moments of triumph and despair, its loves, its hatreds - and its bizarre characters.

Subject Term:

English fiction.

Copies:

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... VC Durban North	General Books	000021755	823 RIV	1	Searching... Unknown
Searching... VC Durban North	General Books	000127039	823 RIV	2	Searching... Unknown
Searching... VEGA Cape Town	General Books	000039533	RIV	1	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Here is the story of Mary and the Girls, of Zoot, Pretty-Boy and Oubaas, of the Abrahams family who came from Bo-Kaap, of Last-Knight the barber and his prim wife. This novel is written in tribute to the people of District Six so that we do not forget.