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  1. The Blacks of Cape Town
    a novel
    Author: Davids, C. A.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Modjaji Books, Cape Town

    "Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with Isaiah Black, the grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before abandoning his mother... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    "Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with Isaiah Black, the grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before abandoning his mother and ultimately changing his name to Isaiah Black. [A name that is not without irony for a man who was classified as mixed, passed as white and sired a line of coloured descendants]. Subtly and astutely, C.A. Davids weaves a narrative that shifts between past and present and contemporary South African and American politics, to examine betrayal and displacement." -- Back cover

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781920590383; 1920590382
    RVK Categories: HP 9999
    Subjects: Betrayal / Fiction; Family secrets / Fiction; Political activists / South Africa / Fiction; Exiles / South Africa / Fiction; South Africans / United States / Fiction
    Scope: 239 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm
  2. Isa & May
    Author: Forster, Margaret
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Chatto & Windus, London

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  3. A map of betrayal
    Author: Jin, Ha
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Pantheon Books, New York

    "From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Location:
    Verbund der Öffentlichen Bibliotheken Berlins - VÖBB
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    "From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary--an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia--reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The trail leads Lilian to China, to her father's long-abandoned other family, whose existence she and her Irish American mother never suspected. As Lilian begins to fathom her father's dilemma--torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country--she sees how his sense of duty distorted his life. But as she starts to understand that Gary, too, had been betrayed, she finds that it is up to her to prevent his tragedy from damaging yet another generation of her family"--

     
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  4. The Blacks of Cape Town
    a novel
    Author: Davids, C. A.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Modjaji Books, Cape Town

    "Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with Isaiah Black, the grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before abandoning his mother... more

    Location:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with Isaiah Black, the grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before abandoning his mother and ultimately changing his name to Isaiah Black. [A name that is not without irony for a man who was classified as mixed, passed as white and sired a line of coloured descendants]. Subtly and astutely, C.A. Davids weaves a narrative that shifts between past and present and contemporary South African and American politics, to examine betrayal and displacement." -- Back cover

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781920590383; 1920590382
    RVK Categories: HP 9999
    Subjects: Betrayal / Fiction; Family secrets / Fiction; Political activists / South Africa / Fiction; Exiles / South Africa / Fiction; South Africans / United States / Fiction
    Scope: 239 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm
  5. A map of betrayal
    Author: Jin, Ha
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Pantheon Books, New York

    "From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated... more

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary--an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia--reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The trail leads Lilian to China, to her father's long-abandoned other family, whose existence she and her Irish American mother never suspected. As Lilian begins to fathom her father's dilemma--torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country--she sees how his sense of duty distorted his life. But as she starts to understand that Gary, too, had been betrayed, she finds that it is up to her to prevent his tragedy from damaging yet another generation of her family"--

     
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