The lost history of stars
Subtitle: a novel
By: Dave Boling
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781616204174
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902; Concentration camps; Afrikaners; Social conditions; Concentration camp inmates; Fiction
Description: Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but more than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm and forced into one such camp, Lettie and her family fight to survive in the face of unimaginable conditions.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Notes: "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."