Name: Triomf
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9781585676491

Marlene van Niekerk

Living in a disintegrating government house, Mol Benade, his brothers Treppie and Pop, and son Lambert live a precarious existence that, in the months preceding South Africa's first free election in 1994, is threatened by a secret that could destroy the bonds that hold them together. Reprint.

Triomf

Marlene Van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk's multi-award winning novel "Triomf" tells the story of the four residents of 127 Martha Street in the then 'poor white' suburb of Triomf, built on the ruins of old Sophiatown, once the vibrant and notorious centre of black city life in Johannesburg. This story of a highly dysfunctional Afrikaans family of the time illustrates the fear and trepidation that was felt about the political changes sweeping the land and their earnest and sometimes amusing attempts to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. The novel relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on the white underclass who should have been its main beneficiaries.

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