Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath
10 best books like Two Parties, One Tux, and a Very Short Film about The Grapes of Wrath (Steven Goldman): Spud, Jock of the Bushveld, The Story of an African Farm, Shirley, Goodness & Mercy: A Childhood in Africa, Gem Squash Tokoloshe, Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter, Confessions of a Gambler, Fiela se Kind, Mercy on These Teenage Chimps, Sons of the 613
| Author | John van de Ruit |
| ISBN | 1595141707 |
It’s 1990. Apartheid is crumbling. Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. And Spud Milton—thirteen-year-old, prepubescent choirboy extraordinaire—is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school in South Africa. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional...
| Author | J. Percy FitzPatrick |
| ISBN | 0868520586 |
Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written and is dedicated by Fitzpatrick to '...those keenest and kindest of critics, best of friends and most...
The Story of an African Farm
| Author | Olive Schreiner |
| ISBN | 0140431845 |
The Story of an African Farm By Olive Schreiner A classic story of rural life in 19th Century South Africa, it is a searing indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions. The first of the great South African novels chronicles the adventures of three childhood friends who defy societal repression....
Shirley, Goodness & Mercy: A Childhood in Africa
| Author | Chris van Wyk |
| ISBN | 0330444832 |
Despite Van Wyk's later becoming involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, this is not a book about racial politics. Instead, it is a delightful account of one boy's special relationship with the relatives, friends and neighbors—often decidedly quirky—who made up his community, and of the important...
| Author | Rachel Zadok |
| ISBN | 0330441191 |
"She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat."
Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken...
| Author | Pamela Jooste |
| ISBN | 0552997579 |
'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother,...
| Author | Rayda Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0795701608 |
In this timely novel, Abeeda, a South African woman in her late forties, is struggling to hold on to both halves of a double life. To others, she is a pious Muslim mother of four, coping with the death of one of her sons to AIDS. But Abeeda has also developed a gambling addiction, winning and losing huge amounts...
| Author | Dalene Matthee |
| ISBN | 0624022692 |
This is one of those hidden gems that makes random used-book-sale buying worthwhile. Fiela’s Child is so good that I’m surprised it isn’t more widely read (the creepy 80s cover might have something to do with it).
The book revolves around two families in nineteenth-century South Africa....
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152060227 |
On his thirteenth birthday, Ronnie woke up feeling like a chimp--all long armed, big eared, and gangly. He's been muddling through each gawky day since. Now his best friend, Joey, has turned thirteen, too--and after Joey humiliates himself in front of a cute girl, he climbs a tree and refuses to come...
| Author | Michael Rubens |
| ISBN | 0547612168 |
Isaac's parents have abandoned him for a trip to Italy in the final days before his bar mitzvah. And even worse, his hotheaded older brother, Josh, has been left in charge. An undefeated wrestler, MMA fighter, and bar brawler, Josh claims to be a "Son of the 613"—a man obedient to the six hundred...
| Author | Susan Juby |
| ISBN | 0060765259 |
Sunglasses. Check.
Binoculars. Check.
Notepad.
Check.
Mom's pink bike.
Check. Check?
Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. and prepared to do anything for Dini Trioli.
Nobody knows who began it or when it became a tradition, but every girl at Harewood...
| Author | James Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0385905246 |
JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that...
| Author | Zoë Wicomb |
| ISBN | 1558612440 |
You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town is among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of “Coloured” citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, “in the racial crucible of their country." Frieda Shenton, the...
Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed
In September 2005, Brett Kebble, a prominent South African mining magnate, was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg in an apparent “assisted suicide”. The top-level investigation that followed was a tipping-point for democratic South Africa. It exposed the corrupt relationship...
The Racist's Guide to the People of South Africa
| Author | Simon Kilpatrick |
| ISBN | 1920137327 |
Politically incorrect, comprehensively unscientific, and exceptionally funny, this guidebook identifies—and pokes fun at—the people of the Rainbow Nation. After sorting out the labels Black, English Whites, Afrikaners, and Coloreds, the discussion pushes on to more difficult questions:...
| Author | Redi Tlhabi |
| ISBN | 1431404616 |
Redi Tlhabi, warm-hearted, charismatic and loved throughout South Africa is as well known for her 702 and Cape Talk radio show as she is for her TV performances and Sunday Times newspaper column. In this astonishing debut, Endings and beginnings, she makes the painful journey back to her death-marred...
| Author | André Brink |
| ISBN | 0156012081 |
When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the truth" first hinted at by a young student in Cape Town who...
Dit is die Eerste Wêreldoorlog. In ’n Britse militêre hospitaal staan Susan Nell voor die deur van een van die private sale. Op die deur is ’n enkele naam aangebring. Sy ken daardie naam. Sestien jaar tevore, in een van die Anglo-Boereoorlog se konsentrasiekampe, het daardie naam soos ’n liddietbom...
| Author | Marlene van Niekerk |
| ISBN | 1585676497 |
Mol Benade, her brothers Treppie and Pop, and son Lambert live in a rotting government house, which is the only thing they have, other than decaying appliances that break as soon as they're fixed, remembrances of a happy past that never really existed, and each other-a Faulknerian bond of familial intimacy...
‘Payback’ is het eerste deel in de Kaapstad-trilogie.
Mace Bishop en Pylon Buso zijn na een carrière als wapensmokkelaars een beveiligingsservice voor welvarende toeristen begonnen. De zaken lopen goed, maar na een noodzakelijke verhuizing lukt het Mace niet om zijn verplichtingen...
Mafeking Road: and Other Stories
| Author | Herman Charles Bosman |
| ISBN | 0979333067 |
These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use...
