
Coconut
Title:
Coconut
Author:
Matlwa, Kopano.
ISBN:
9781431403899
9781770093362
Personal Author:
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.
Electronic Access:
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10559338Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007327628-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007327628-d.html