Time of the Butcherbird
By Alex la Guma
1981
First Published
3.77
Average Rating
136
Number of Pages
Hlangeni's people must be moved to a Bantustan from the land near an arid town in the South African Karoo for the benefit of mining interests. No other South African writer has given such a rounded picture of all the people in a small community inexorably moving towards tragedy.
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3.77
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100
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