The Year the Gypsies Came

Seitenkanten vergilbt und vor allem sehr fleckig. Umschlag gut, sauber, keine Flecken, ohne Leserillen, innen ist das Buch sauber. Sichtbar nicht neu.

Johannesburg, the late 1960s and the Iris family take in house guests from time to time to diffuse the tension in their large but unhappy home. One spring an Australian family of wanderers with their two boys, Streak and Otis, who is brain damaged - comes to stay. 11-year-old Emily and Streak form a close friendship but then tragedy strikes and their lives are changed forever. With vivid local detail delivered through Zulu folktales, this is a moving first novel.

South Africa, English