Jamestown blues

Author(s)
    • Davies, Caitlin
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Jamestown blues

Caitlin Davies

(A Penguin original)(Penguin fiction)

Penguin, 1996

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Description

A child's vision of events when she was about six and living in Botswana, the daughter of an Englishwoman and a Motswana. Her father takes a job as accountant at the salt mine of the new township of Jamestown, while her mother Rose is unable to get a job and grudgingly sets about housekeeping with pretty basic amenities. The book concerns the family's eventually disastrous friendship with a white couple, Shaun and Christine Fish. It is an account of a child's vision and sense of identity, combined with her insights into white behaviour and expectations, and her evocation of the past.

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  • NCID
    BA27852865
  • ISBN
    • 0140248277
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    250 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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