J Brooks Spector Reviews My Father, My Monster by McIntosh Polela
Verdict: carrot
Polela has one hell of a tale to tell. His life begins in what he remembers as a five year-old’s idyllic existence in a township near Durban, until he and his younger sister are unceremoniously uprooted, carried away and handed off to unknown relatives for a more Hobbesian existence way upcountry.
It is as if Polela has gone from being the pampered little prince to being the object of scorn in a rural KwaZulu-Natal version of Lord of the Flies – except that his agonies seem to never end. The adults – and, most specifically, his parents, despite his increasingly urgent, ardent prayers – never reappear to set things right again. They can’t, of course, because his father has killed his mother.
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- My Father, My Monster by McIntosh Polela
EAN: 9781431401604
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