A Revolutionary Woman

London England: Virago Press Ltd, 1984. Hardback. A Revolutionary Woman. Slight foxing to edge. The year is 1920, Christina, an English-woman teaches at a Coloured School in the Karoo, a semi-desert region in South Africa whose harsh ladnscape reflects the intransigent racial attitudes of its Boer community.A follower of Gandhi during his early years in South Africa, she has withdrawn there after the death of her Indian lover and Gandhi's return to India. Haunted by her political past and by her dead lovers betrayal in taking, according to Indian custom, a child-bride, she becomes involved in an intense and complex relationship with a Coloured boy, half African, half Italian, who passionately identifies with his European heritage. It is his seductuon of a retarded Boer girl, and the consequences for the whole community as the Boer men take their revenge, which moves this outstanding and poetic novel to its horrifying climax. 147 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st Uk Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.