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100 years of South Africa's troubled past and present, starting in 1901, and the English are coming. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman.
Tracy Ann Oberman reads Damian Barr's blistering debut novel, spanning 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present, from the 1901 Boer War to 2010.
Inspired by real events, it explores South Africa's hidden colonial history as well as its shocking present-day darkness,
Beginning in 1901, the height of the second Boer War, and Sarah van der Watt and her son wait in fear for the English to arrive at their farm....
Abridged in ten parts by Richard Hamilton.
Producer: Justine Willett
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in May 2019.
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