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Camille Pascal a young unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with herfather and her small daughter Zara during the closing years of the apartheidregime. The family settles amongst a winegrowing community in the Western Capewhere they become involved in the lives of victims of the System. Interwovenwith Camilles story is that of Jake Coleman a painter with an internationalreputation a deepseated fear of failure and a complicated private life. Itis in the exclusive Jake Coleman School of Art that Zara now a talented artistin her late teens decides to enrol. She is a feral troubled girl obsessedwith scenes of violence and quite unlike anything Jake has encountered. OneTongue Singing explores some of the different faces of power both in the waysit operates between individuals and in societies. It is written with economyhumanity and a hard brilliance and it announces a distinctive new voice fromSouth Africa. «
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