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The
2005 Award
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Gardening
at Night
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Gardening
at Night follows the unfolding of a young girl's life through a childhood
filled with silences, through adolescence and young womanhood. It is about
how much people are the total of their longings, how high drama can also
be low comedy. It probes how much of the old century a girl should take
with her into the new one, and examines the merging of families in the Eighties
and their emerging into the florescence of the Nineties and beyond.
It is especially the story of a girl's escape from a ghost town. The South African mining town of Kimberley was created over a hundred years ago when men with buckets scraped out the insides of the earth like a thousand black dentists. Now it is a place where the only tales are those of leaving. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Diane Awerbuck teaches high school English and History to Cape Town schoolgirls. She knows that someday she will have to go back to Kimberley. Gardening at Night is her first novel. |
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