num_pages: 444
description: This is a novel of love and dispossession in which individual destinies are played out against the backdrop of the country's wider conflicts at the turn of the century, particularly the turbulence and discord wrought by the inevitable clash of different cultures.
language: English
title: Shades
titlecomplete: Shades
genres: Cultural, South Africa, Novels, Africa, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 390
publisher: Penguin Books (SA) (Pty) Ltd