Mother to mother

Sindiwe Magona

earliest edition we have, 1998 Beacon Press, 1999 210 pages

An American girl is murdered by blacks in 1993 South Africa while preparing them for democracy. The novel is in the form of a letter to the girl's mother, from the mother of one of the killers, describing the way apartheid brutalized her son. A first novel based on real events by a black South African writer.

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Editions we hold

Mother to Mother edition · 2022 · Beacon Press · 9780807007129
Mother to Mother paperback · 2018 · Bange C. GmbH · 9783804431324
Mother to Mother paperback · 2016 · Diesterweg Moritz · 9783425049717
Mother to Mother edition · 2015 · New Africa Books · 312 pages · 9781485622925
Mother to Mother edition · 2014 · Beacon Press · 9781322055510
Mother to Mother (Bluestreak) paperback · 2000 · Beacon Press · 216 pages · 9780807009499
Mother to mother edition · 1999 · Beacon Press · 210 pages
Mother to mother edition · 1998 · David Philip · 210 pages

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