Fiela's Child
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Translated from: afr
Translation of: Fiela se kind
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780143185437
Description: In Africa a child wanders too far into the Knysna Forest. He never returns. Nine years later, two government officials, working on a census, find a white child living with a Coloured family in the mountains on the other side of the forest. They take him away from the stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and give him back to his 'original' family. Whipped into using a new name and calling strangers 'ma' and 'pa', Benjamin is so stunned that the cannot cry and waits for Fiela to reclaim him. But Fiela, powerless before authority, never comes. So Benjamin has to grow up before he can go in search of the truth.