Marguerite Poland

Taken Captive by Birds (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

All my life I have been 'taken captive by birds'. Their doings are the thread that runs through childhood, the link to people and to place. Their appearance and their presence can at once recall a name, a scent, a morning full of song and exploration; an evening sorrow, a childhood fear. For, somehow, it is the birds that saw it all: those unobtrusive harbingers whose boundaries are defined by other laws than ours but whose ancient lore remains a cipher to remembrance for me.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143529859
• Artikelnr.: 52358693

Autorenporträt

Marguerite Poland is the author of the novels Train to Doringbult (shortlisted for the cna Award), Shades (shortlisted for the M-Net Award), Iron Love, Recessional for Grace, and, most recently, The Keeper (winner of a Nielsen Booksellers Choice Award). Her non-fiction work includes the highly acclaimed The Abundant Herds: a Celebration of the Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People, based on her doctoral thesis in Zulu literature, and the memoir Taken Captive by Birds. Poland has been honoured with two Sir Percy Fitzpatrick Awards for children's literature, an Ingwazi Award, and a sala Lifetime Achievement Award; in 2016 she was awarded the National Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) by the South African President for her contribution to African languages.