The expedition to the baobab tree
By: Wilma Stockenstrōm ; translated from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee
Contributors: Coetzee, J. M., 1940- translator
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9781935744924
Subjects: Women slaves; Fiction
Work titles: Kremetartekspedisie
Description: "In J.M.Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerfully symbolic story in the voice of a slave that explores the depths of imagination, isolation, fear, and love. A slave woman is the only survivor of a failed expedition into the depths of Southern Africa. She shelters in the hollow trunk of a baobab tree where she relives her earlier existence in a state of increasing isolation. We are the sole witnesses to her moving history: her capture as a young child, her life in a harbor city on the eastern coast as servant to various masters, her journey with her last owner and protector, and her life in the baobab tree"--
Notes: Translation from Afrikaans of: Kremetartekspedisie.