The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

By Wilma Stockenström, Wilma Stockentröm, Wilma Stockenstrom

Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571347746
• ISBN13: 9780571347742
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Unforgettable. Could read it again and again.

The stark and vital images, the quiet insistence of the journey took my breath away.

As beautiful as fire-ants on a slice of chocolate cake

This is alternately heartbreaking and transformative... The story of a woman leaving a domestic South African hell for the sanctity of a hollow tree... Stockenstrom writes like no one else and I wish more of her stuff had been translated...