Hottentot Venus - A Novel

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Anchor

2004

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 1400032083

During the early 1800's Sarah, a South African Khoekhoe tribal woman(degradingly refered to as Hottentots), witnesses the salughter and displacement of her people by European settlers. In desperation, she leaves her home to seek a new life in the city of Cape Town. However, the only thing that awaits her there are menial jobs with slave-like conditions, physical and emotional abuse