{"product_id":"moederland","title":"Moederland","description":"'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 'Fascincating and engrossing' Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ANNA, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395862798718,"sku":"NW9781399810814","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781399810814.jpg?v=1778673901","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/moederland","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}