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Praying Mantis

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#213914
Titel	Praying Mantis
Auteur	Brink, Andre
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Vintage
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0099488949
ISBN13	9780099488941
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is then made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned ev... (Lees verder)en by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people.
Pagina's	280
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 6,00

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