Fiela's Child
Series: Phoenix fiction
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: afr
Translation of: Fiela se kind
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226111278
Description: Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, "Fiela's Child" tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son. What follows is Benjamin's search for his identity and the fundamental changes affecting the white and black families who claim him.