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Tears fell down my face like a stream when I was reading the part where Jakkie inspects his deceased mother's room 💔
It has taken me over a year to finish this voluminous novel. I would leave it and go to other books until I decided one day that I needed to finish it. It was not because of its volume, it was because of its emotional overweight. Most of the times I felt it sickening with all its events and sad turns. I felt sorry for Milla, a life lived in vain, and it wnded like a blow in the wind. It got me thinking about our individual choices and the pressure to satisfy those who are impossible to please, those who do not see any good in us, those who want us for themselves. The narrative text, the voice, the multiple points of view, the flashbacks, the use of many intertextual elements, all these and maybe more make the book stand distinguished in a vast South African literary cannon.