Jo-Anne Richards
The Innocence of Roast Chicken is a post-apartheid novel with a strong sense of place and an atmosphere of light and beauty shot through with an acute awareness of impending tragedy.,This novel concerns an Afrikaans/English family in the Eastern Cape and their idyllic life on their grandparentsâ€™ farm, seen through the eyes of the little girl, and the subtle web of relationships which is shattered by a horrifying incident in the mid-sixties.,Scenes from the childâ€™s blissful early life are juxtaposed with Johannesburg in 1989 when the exiles are returning and our narrator, now married to a human rights lawyer, stands aside from the general euphoria which is gripping the nation. This intelligent womanâ€™s despair, both with her marriage and with the national situation, resolutely returns to a brutal incident one Christmas day when the family were thrust from their eden.
Fiction,Southern Africa,South Africa
The Innocence Of Roast Chicken