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The Undesirables
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
While the vastly outnumbered Boer commandos fight in the field, half a million British soldiers torch a flaming path across the South African veld. As they go, the British imprison thousands of displaced Boer families, including Aletta Venter's, and cast them into newly devised 'concentration camps'.
In a crowded tent with her mother and siblings, Aletta finds ways to cope...
Details
256 pages
Imprint: Picador