Eyes in the Night

Publisher: Bookstorm

1879, the year in which I grew up faster than I could shout my name. That year was the one in which we experienced events and encounters that no one, particularly a child, should ever witness. It was also the year my people lost everything – their land and fields – and were reduced to being vagrants and beggars in the land of their birth.I am the daughter of Mqokotshwa Makhoba, one of King Cetshwayo’s generals of the iNgobamakhosi regiment, he named me Nombhosho, which means bullet. He said I would come out of any situation fast and unscathed, like a bullet…Nomavenda Mathiane stumbled upon her grandmother’s story well over a century after the gruelling events of the Battle of Isandlwana that formed her life. Astounded to hear how her grandmother had survived the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War between the British and Zulu nations as a young girl, Mathiane spent hours with her elder sisters reconstructing the extraordinary life of their grandmother. The result is a sweeping epic of both personal and political battles. Eyes in the Night is a young Zulu woman’s story of drama, regret, guilt and, ultimately, triumph – set against the backdrop of a Zululand changed beyond recognition. A true story almost lost, but for a chance remark at a family gathering.

About Nomavenda Mathiane

Nomavenda Mathiane is a journalist who has worked for most major South African newspapers. She cut her teeth at The World newspaper during the turbulent Soweto student uprisings of 1976, and later joined Frontline magazine where she specialised in writing about life in South African townships. She is the author of Beyond the Headlines and South Africa: Diary of Troubled Times.

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Binding EAN ISBN-10 Pub Date PAGES Language Size Price
E-Book 9781928257257 1928257259 2016-09-16 0 0.00 x 0.00 x 0.00 in $15.99
Paperback 9781928257240 1928257240 2017-01-02 276 0.00 x 6.19 x 9.25 in $20.95

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