Sugar Town Queens

Author : Malla Nunn
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781761062513

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Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living in Sugar Town, one of South Africa's infamous shanty towns. She won't tell anyone, not even Amandla, about her past. And she has visions, including ones that promise the return of Amandla's father as if he were a prince in a fairytale, but their hardscrabble life is no fairytale. Amandla knows her father is long gone - since before Amandla was born - and she's pretty sure he's not a prince. He's just another mystery and missing piece of her mother's past, and one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks - that and the fact that Amandla is black and her mother is not. Lately, her mother has been acting even more strangely, so when Amandla finds a mysterious address at the bottom of her mother's purse along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. With her best friends by her side, Amandla is ready to take on the devil himself, and as she confronts devastating family secrets and pain that has lasted a generation, taking on the devil is exactly what she must do.

Author : Malla Nunn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525515616

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Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn Pdf

From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals. When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince and this was the fairytale ending their family was destined for. But in truth, Amandla's father has long been gone--since before Amandla was born--and even her mother's memory of him is hazy. In fact, many of her mother's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is Black. When Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. What she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever. But with her best friends at her side, Amandla is ready to take on family secrets and the devil himself. These Sugar Town queens are ready to take over the world to expose the hard truths of their lives.

Author : Hazel Newlevant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1681485877

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Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant Pdf

A bisexual, polyamorous love story about a young woman's journey delights and disappointments of multiple lovers.

Author : Malla Nunn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476730738

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The Malla Nunn Collection #1 by Malla Nunn Pdf

From award-winning author and filmmaker Malla Nunn, a collection of three riveting crime novels set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. A Beautiful Place to Die A stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper—a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed. Let the Dead Lie When a young boy is brutally murdered, Detective Cooper is forced out of the shadows and back into service, eluding the Afrikaner police as he conducts his own covert investigation. As the murders continue to pile up, with Cooper perilously close to the scenes, he becomes the police department’s prime suspect. Blessed Are the Dead Detective Cooper returns in this powerful, atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa.

Author : Sarah Addison Allen
Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0340979178

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The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen Pdf

A tale of love, candy and magic to bewitch even the most skeptical reader . . .

Author : Malla Nunn
Publisher : Emily Bestler Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451616929

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Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn Pdf

Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in this rich and complex novel by Malla Nunn, author of Let the Dead Lie and A Beautiful Place to Die. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper returns in this powerful, atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa, by award-winning author Malla Nunn. The body of a beautiful seventeen-year-old Zulu girl, Amahle, is found covered in wildflowers on a hillside in the Drakensberg Mountains, halfway between her father’s compound and the enormous white-owned farm where she worked. Detective Sergeant Cooper and Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala are sent to the desolate landscape to investigate. They soon discover that Amahle’s life was woven into both the black and white communities in ways they could never have imagined. Cooper and Shabalala must enter the guarded worlds of a traditional Zulu clan and a divided white farming community to gather up the secrets she left behind and bring her murderer to justice. In a country deeply divided by apartheid, where the law is bent as often as it is broken, Emmanuel Cooper fights against all odds to deliver justice and bring together two seemingly disparate and irreconcilable worlds despite the danger that is arising.

Author : Malla Nunn
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416586210

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A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn Pdf

Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed. In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it's not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface. When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won't be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined. The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, A Beautiful Place to Die marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1905-07
Category : Bankers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004910472

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Rand McNally Bankers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ken Bernstein
Publisher : Berlitz Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Travel
ISBN : 2831503221

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Australia by Ken Bernstein Pdf

Author : Robert F. Kay
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Travel
ISBN : 086442177X

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Fiji by Robert F. Kay Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Salem House Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : UVA:X001084859

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Explore Australia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN : UCSC:32106012175532

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The Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2716 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015056815379

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Profiles of America: Eastern region: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia. Master index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff E. Toghill
Publisher : Raupo
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008025275

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The Great Dividing Range by Jeff E. Toghill Pdf

Author : Kenneth D. Buckley,Edward Lawrence Wheelwright
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4451547

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No Paradise for Workers by Kenneth D. Buckley,Edward Lawrence Wheelwright Pdf

Economic, social and political relations of capitalism in Australia.