Frieda And Min

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In apartheid South Africa, a poor Jewish girl and a 'white kaffir' form a lifetime friendship. When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid.

Reviews

'Perceptive and sensitive and extremely funny' -- Isobel Shepherd-Smith * The Times *
'One of the new breed of women writers in South Africa who are telling our story with such power and talent' * Cape Times *
'A novel that everyone should read..has that rare ability to be both moving and funny...deserves all the praise that it will surely get' -- Pamela Weaver * Examiner *

Author Bio

Pamela Jooste was born in Cape Town, where she still lives. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels- Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places, People Like Ourselves and Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, her first novel, which won the Commonwealth Best First Book Award for the African Region; the Samlam Literary Award, and the Book Data South African Booksellers' Choice Award.