Kopano Matlwa
R295.00
Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for her first novel, Coconut, which went on to become a bestseller and a classic South African novel. Her subsequent novels, Spilt Milk and Period Pain, focus on the ‘Born Free’ generation, and address issues of race, class and colonisation.
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The Kopano Matlwa Collection
Coconut is a story that deals with growing up as a black child in a white world. It is the story of black youth who grow up in white neighbourhoods, go to private schools and have white friends. As is the case with any child, all that these children want is to grow, to be loved; but most importantly, to fit in. Fitting in, however, comes at the cost of one’s blackness – too white for black, and too black for white.
