A sin of omission
By: Marguerite Poland
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781485904199; 9781485904281
Subjects: Clergy; Fiction; Race relations; Church of England
Description: "In the Eastern Cape, Stephen (Malusi) Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, must journey to his mother's rural home to inform her of his elder brother's death. First educated at the Native College in Grahamstown, Stephen was sent to England in 1869 for training at the Missionary College in Canterbury. But on his return to South Africa, relegated to a dilapidated mission near Fort Beaufort, he had to confront not only the prejudices of a colonial society but the discrimination within the Church itself. Conflicted between his loyalties to the amaNgqika people, for whom his brother fought, and the colonial cause he as Reverend Mzamane is expected to uphold, Stephen's journey to his mother's home proves decisive in resolving the contradictions that tear at his heart"--Back cover.