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A Childhood on the Edge of History

Charles van Onselen

  • Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

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Charles van Onselen is a historian based in Johannesburg. The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Price for Non-Fiction.

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