{"product_id":"moederland-by-cato-pedder-9781399810814","title":"Moederland","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating and engrossing' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow did South Africa turn out the way it did? In \u003ci\u003eMoederland\u003c\/i\u003e - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKROTOA\u003c\/b\u003e is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANGELA\u003c\/b\u003e, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELSJE\u003c\/b\u003e arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNA\u003c\/b\u003e, mistress of the Cape's grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARGARETHA\u003c\/b\u003e, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNA\u003c\/b\u003e loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISIE\u003c\/b\u003e survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and 'Mother of the Nation'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCATO\u003c\/b\u003e escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETRONELLA\u003c\/b\u003e, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844660318444,"sku":"9781399810814","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10476203482686.jpg?v=1758850297","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/moederland-by-cato-pedder-9781399810814","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}