Book summaryInspired by the author's great-grandfather's letters home from the Boer War, this novel is about the siege of Ladysmith. The story is told from the points of view not only of the British soldiers but of the townspeople, and provides a vivid picture of life in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Media reviews"T]he prologue of the book...suggests that Foden's meticulous research can indeed produce poetry..Sad to say, the poetry soon ends....[T]here is a multicultural thoroughness to Foden's docudrama that is more appropriate, perhaps, to a bar graph than a novel... The real failure of LADYSMITH however, is a leaden seriousness that smashes characters into pancakes and language into parody." |
LADYSMITHby Foden, GilesFirst American edition
Book description: New York: Knopf, 2000. First American edition Fine in Wraps The second novel by this young British writer (his first was a winner of the Whitbread Award and Somerset Maugham Prize), a love story set against the Boer siege of the South African town of Ladysmith. Inspired by letters from his great-grandfather who was a British trooper there. This is an uncorrected proof copy in plain gray wrappers with a sheet of quotes form the British press laid in.
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