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Dan Sleigh's debut novel tells the story of the first half-century of the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Sleigh is an Afrikaans archivist and draws on official documents, journals, and personal letters to provide local details in recreating the encounter between the Dutch and the Goringhaicona people (whom they called Hottentotts).
Review
"There is, I think, only one word ultimately to describe Eilande: 'awesome'. A country that can produce a kaleidoscope like this novel, with it's sheet dazzling beauty and deep understanding of humanity, has most triumphantly put its colonial adolescence behind it."
Paperback, 757 pages
Author: Dan Sleigh
ISBN-10: 0624041182
ISBN-13: 9780624041184
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