Book review: Sarie, but you lost the plot

19 July 2016 - 10:27
By Lin Sampson

This book combines a vivid portrayal of people and places with the forcefulness of an ironic political parable. The storyline rappels over a jungle of different turfs that perforates political boundaries.Heinrich Böhmke is one of the few writers who breaks silence on the First Indigenous People and their descendants, too often treated shabbily by their white cousins - "walking the same roads to work and church, with many of the same ways; granting you no exemption from segregation".

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