Description
In a Johannesburg furniture store, Muriel—an accounts typist—moves through the routines of work and the shifting boundaries of everyday life, where race and power shape every conversation, choice, and aspiration. As she forms relationships on the margins of the “Metropolitan” world, her story illuminates the quiet violence of segregation and the complex, often contradictory ties between black and white South Africans. Blending a semi-autobiographical immediacy with sharp social observation, the novel traces how dignity is negotiated under constraint and how identity survives within systems designed to limit it. Banned in apartheid-era South Africa, this landmark work by Miriam Tlali—one of the first black women to publish an English-language novel in the country—offers a compelling, ground-level view of oppression, resilience, and the search for belonging.
Available Editions
paperback
Longman Pub Group
Published Jan 1, 1988
192 pages
ISBN: 9780582016576
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First Published
1975
Language
eng
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