The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena

By Elsa Joubert

Book Overview

Poppie's contented childhood ends when she marries a migrant worker and moves to the alarming world of Cape Town. No sooner has she established her roots there than the authorities want her and her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1868421457
• ISBN13: 9781868421459
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Jonathna Ball
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Women speaking - Appropriating women's voices

I wrote a chapter about this book in Margaret Jean Hay's collection, African Novels in the Classroom ( Lynne Rienner, 2000). It is a gripping 'true' story about ordinary life in extraordinary times and the courage of ordinary people. The book provides a lens into day to day struggles in apartheid S'rn Africa, but also confronts us with issues about how author Elsa Joubert went about telling the story of Poppie Nongena. I have taught this book often and my students really learned from it and liked it. Women tended to like the book more than men. I wish it would be republished. JmPenvenne