This Book Betrays My Brother by Molope, Kagiso Lesego

This Book Betrays My Brother (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781988449296)

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This Book Betrays My Brother by Molope, Kagiso Lesego

This Book Betrays My Brother

$18.95
This Book Betrays My Brother by Molope, Kagiso Lesego

This Book Betrays My Brother

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Ottawa Book Award, English Fiction, 2019
Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018
Named to the Globe 100, 2018
CBC Books, Top YA Pick for 2018
Named to Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2018
Named to Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books, 2018

What does a teenage girl do when she sees her beloved older brother commit a horrific crime? Should she report to her parents, or should she keep quiet? Should she confront him? All her life, Naledi has been in awe of Basi, her charming and outgoing older brother. They've shared their childhood, with its jokes and secrets, the alliances and stories about the community. Having reached thirteen, she is preparing to go to the school dance. Then she sees Basi commit an act that violates everything she believes about him. How will she live her life now?

This coming-of-age novel brings together many social issues, peculiar not only to South Africa but elsewhere as well, in the modern world: class and race, young love and physical desire, homosexuality. In beautiful, lyrical, and intimate prose, Molope shows the dilemmas facing a young woman as she attempts to find her place in a new, multiracial, and dynamic nation emerging into the world after more than a century of racist colonialism. A world now dominated by men. There are no simple answers.



Author: Kagiso Lesego Molope
ISBN-10: 1988449294
ISBN-13: 9781988449296
Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2018
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2018 pg. 126
School Library Journal 06/01/2018 pg. 92
By Kagiso Lesego Molope
By Kagiso Lesego Molope
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Kagiso Lesego Molope was born and educated in South Africa. Her first novel, Dancing in the Dust (Mawenzi House) was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006. Her second novel, The Mending Season, was chosen to be on the school curriculum in South Africa. This Book Betrays My Brother was awarded the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize by the English Academy of Southern Africa, where it was first published. Her latest novel, Such a Lonely, Lovely Road, was released in 2018. She lives in Ottawa.

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