Tsk-Tsk (eBook)

The story of a child at large

Suzan Hackney (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
264 Seiten
Jonathan Ball (Verlag)
978-1-86842-873-1 (ISBN)

Infos

'I was made in Coffee Bay. Right there on the beach, in the sand.' From the opening lines, we are drawn in and engrossed by this startling memoir of a singular childhood. Suzan is adopted as a newborn in the late 1960s into a seemingly loving and welcoming family living in Pietermaritzburg. But Suzan is set on a collision course with, most particularly, her adoptive mother, and society, from her very beginning. Suzan's relationship with her mother is fraught with drama, which veers over into a level of emotional abuse and needless cruelty that is shocking.
At the age of thirteen, Suzan is sent to a place of safety as a ward of the state, effectively 'orphaning' her. From there, she spirals out of control – fighting to survive in a world of other neglected, abandoned and abused children. She becomes a 'runner', escaping at every opportunity from her various places of confinement, grabbing her schooling in snatches, living on the edges of a drug and prostitution underworld, finding love wherever she can.
Suzan's young life was the stuff of movies, but it is her writing, in a voice that is unforgettable and true, that transforms her memories into something magical rarely matched in South African literature. A new classic.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1970s • 1980s • Abuse • adolesence • Autobiography • Child at Large • Childhood • Constantia School for Girls • eighties • Family • family trauma • HS Van der Walt • jonathan ball • jonathan ball publishers • KwaZulu-Natal • Life Writing • Memoir • Natal • Pietermaritzburg • Rebel • Rebellion • Reformatories • Reformatory • reformatory school • Rosenhof • Rosenhof High School • Runaway • Seventies • South Africa • Suicide • Suzan Hackney • Teenager • Tk • Tokai • Trauma • Tsk-Tsk • Van der Walt High School
• ISBN-10: 1-86842-873-7 / 1868428737
• ISBN-13: 978-1-86842-873-1 / 9781868428731