by Michiel Heyns · Philippe Rey · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782848761657
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«Jours d'enfance» is the novel by Michiel Heyns, published by Philippe Rey in paperback (281 pages, in French).
In 1968, Simon and his classmates at the English-speaking school in Bloemfontein, South Africa, prepare for a tennis match that revives memories and reveals the racial and class conflicts of apartheid. Simon, son of a liberal English magistrate and an Afrikaner mother, embodies the divide between the two communities and the hypocrisy of the adult world.
Subtitled «roman» on the cover, it was published on August 19, 2010 with a translation by Françoise Adelstain.
Reading for those interested in African fiction and apartheid-era South Africa.
