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Black Orchids

Gillian Slovo

When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil scion of a privileged Sinhalese family she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel with their young son Milton from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s and no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would England does not take kindly to strangers especially families who are half black and half white.

A profound and moving novel this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin.>

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : NOV 6, 2008
  • Imprint : Virago
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781844083114
  • Price : INR 850
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Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo (father Joe Slovo mother Ruth First) was educated in Britain where she has spent all her adult life. Since Nelson Mandela's release she has made frequent visits to South Africa. She has written seven books.

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