Kenneth de Kok

Going Back to Say Goodbye (eBook, ePUB)

A Boyhood on the Mine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Going Back to Say Goodbye: A Boyhood on the Mine Kenneth de Kok describes his childhood in Stilfontein, a small mining town in the Western Transvaal. Set in the late 1950s and seen through the eyes of the young Kenneth, the story immerses the reader in a world of bicycle races down dirt roads, adventures in the veld, kleilat fights, childhood pacts and seaside holidays. It's a world of Post Toasties, chickenpox, pellet guns and catties - a universe populated by brothers and sisters, grown-ups, by Grandma and Grandpa. A sensitively written memoir about the relationship between fathers and sons, and about growing up.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kwela
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780795707858
• Artikelnr.: 49681805

Autorenporträt

Born in 1949, Kenneth de Kok spent his boyhood in Stilfontein, a mining town now in North West Province. After boarding school in Kimberley, conscription, and three years studying at the University of the Witwatersrand, he left South Africa in 1971 to avoid further military service. He lived and worked in the UK and Holland without documentation before immigrating to Canada in 1978. Self-employed in the kitchen cabinet business, he lives in the countryside of Eastern Ontario. He is married to the Canadian poet Carolyn Smart, and has three sons. He regularly visits South Africa where his mother and three sisters live.