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The syringa tree : a novel / Pamela Gien.

By: Gien, Pamela.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007Edition: Random House Trade Paperback ed.Description: 279 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780375759109 (pbk.); 0375759107.Subject(s): Apartheid -- Fiction | South Africa -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Apartheid -- Fiction | South Africa -- Fiction | Race relations -- FictionDDC classification: 823/.92 | [Fic] Summary: Young Elizabeth Grace, the privileged daughter of a part-Jewish doctor and his wife in South Africa in the 1960s, learns firsthand about the cruelties of apartheid when her beloved Xhosa nanny, Salamina, is forced to carry permission papers to enter white areas, and must hide her newborn baby from authorities.
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Young Elizabeth Grace, the privileged daughter of a part-Jewish doctor and his wife in South Africa in the 1960s, learns firsthand about the cruelties of apartheid when her beloved Xhosa nanny, Salamina, is forced to carry permission papers to enter white areas, and must hide her newborn baby from authorities.

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