Author: Richards, Jo-Anne.
Title: The Innocence of Roast Chicken.
Description: Headline Review 1997. Paperback, 316pp. ISBN: 9780747259312 This novel concerns an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape in the mid-sixties, juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when the exiles are returning and our narrator, now married to a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria which is gripping the nation. This was nominated for the M-Net Book Prize and spent 16 weeks at number one on the South African best-seller lists.

Keywords: africa african south southern apartheid fiction


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