The Leper Compound
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: January 2, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781934137062
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction; Fiction - General; Bildungsromans; Southern Rhodesia
Description: For Colleen, motherless at seven, isolated from her schizophrenic younger sister, illness unleashes the uncanny and essential of human identity. Growing into womanhood in Rhodesia's final conflict-ridden years, she transgresses social, racial, and political boundaries in her search for connection.