Moffie Van Der Merwe Andrae CarlPaperback
Moffie Van Der Merwe Andrae CarlPaperback Set in "Ward 22" during the Angola Bush War that raged from 1966 to 1989 in South-west Africa, with evocative realism, Moffie transports the reader into the…
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Moffie Van Der Merwe Andrae CarlPaperback
Set in "Ward 22" during the Angola Bush War that raged from 1966 to 1989 in South-west Africa, with evocative realism, Moffie transports the reader into the world of a young gay conscript ironically defending a regime that actively supresses his identity.Nicholas van der Swart has always known he is different. When, at the age of 19, he is conscripted into the South African army, he enters a world that is utterly at odds with his every sensibility. Unable to live up to the expectations his family, his heritage and his culture have of him, he grows increasingly diffident and introverted.
Here, he will face the scorn and violence of his tormenters, but will also find the strength to survive.Although the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa has gone a long way toward exposing and exorcising some of the atrocities committed in the name of Apartheid, very