One tongue singing

one tongue singing is a novel which unfolds in two time-frames. In the first, a young unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and her small daughter during the closing years of apartheid. The family settles amongst a small wine-growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the System. In the second frame, the daughter, now about nineteen years old, is a talented artist who enrols at the exclusive Art School of a womanising painter. The man walks a tightrope between popular success and a deep-seated fear of failure (linked to a growing awareness of being a fake). He has started to suffer from panic attacks.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Mann, Susan, 1967-

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11534

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11534