Pieternella, daughter of Eva
By: Dalene Matthee ; translated by Malcolm Hacksley
Contributors: Hacksley, Malcolm
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Translated from: afr
Translation of: Pieternella van die Kaap
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780143530039
Subjects: Fiction; History; Racially mixed people; South African fiction
Work titles: Pieternella van die Kaap
Description: Presents a fictional account of the life of Pieternella, the mixed-raced daughter of Eva of the Goringhaicona tribe of South Africa and one of the first interpreters for the Dutch colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Pieter van Meerhoff, surgeon for the Dutch East India Company; discussing her life after being orphan, her early marriage, and her feelings of being half-human.
Notes: Translation of: Pieternella van die Kaap.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-562).