The Resource Agaat : a novel, Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns
Agaat : a novel, Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns
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- Summary
- Focuses on the relationship between Milla, an aging white female farmer in South Africa, and Agaat, her black maidservant, in a story set near the end of apartheid
- Language
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- eng
- afr
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- x, 581 pages
- Note
- Originally published in Afrikaans: Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2004. This translation originally published as The way of women: Jeppestown : Jonathan Ball, 2006
- Isbn
- 9780982503096
- Label
- Agaat : a novel
- Title
- Agaat
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueWomen household employees -- South Africa
- trueSouth Africa -- Social life and customs
- trueLoyalty in women
- Women household employees -- South Africa -- Fiction
- trueWomen farmers -- South Africa
- South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueParalysis
- trueCaretakers
- Women farmers -- South Africa -- Fiction
- trueApartheid
- Farm life -- South Africa -- Fiction
- Language
-
- eng
- afr
- eng
- Summary
- Focuses on the relationship between Milla, an aging white female farmer in South Africa, and Agaat, her black maidservant, in a story set near the end of apartheid
- Summary
- Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2010.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 350869
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Van Niekerk, Marlene
- Dewey number
- 839.3636
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PT6592.32.A545
- LC item number
- A6513 2010
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Heyns, Michiel
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women farmers
- Women household employees
- Farm life
- South Africa
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Agaat : a novel, Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns
- Note
- Originally published in Afrikaans: Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2004. This translation originally published as The way of women: Jeppestown : Jonathan Ball, 2006
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 18035552
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- x, 581 pages
- Isbn
- 9780982503096
- Lccn
- 2009039476
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn440283252
- (OCoLC)440283252
- Label
- Agaat : a novel, Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns
- Note
- Originally published in Afrikaans: Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2004. This translation originally published as The way of women: Jeppestown : Jonathan Ball, 2006
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 18035552
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- x, 581 pages
- Isbn
- 9780982503096
- Lccn
- 2009039476
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn440283252
- (OCoLC)440283252
Subject
- trueApartheid
- trueCaretakers
- Farm life -- South Africa -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoyalty in women
- trueParalysis
- trueSouth Africa -- Social life and customs
- South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueWomen farmers -- South Africa
- Women farmers -- South Africa -- Fiction
- trueWomen household employees -- South Africa
- Women household employees -- South Africa -- Fiction
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