Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 1996 – Gold Prize

The Joining is a book that needs to be read, and needs to be prescribed in schools, because without self-conscious attempts at being politically correct, it is profoundly so.

                - Helen Brain in the Mail & Guardian

The Joining

“The Joining is a rare and precious book that gives us back the silenced story of our land and of ourselves ... a book of manifest magic.”

- Petra Grutter: judge, Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature, 1996

The Joining was the Gold Prize winner of the prestigious Sanlam Prize for Young Literature, 1996. Originally published by Tafelberg, we have re-issued the book thanks to public demand.

The Joining has been described as possibly the best youth novel ever published in South Africa; it was South Africa’s entry at the IBBY Congress in India in 2002.
 
Jeremy and his friends, in extraordinary circumstances, find themselves living the ordinary lives of ancient San people. Adopted by a group of hunter gatherers, they learn the essential lessons of living – what it is to be “people”.

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ISBN 978 1 919900 99 5
 
Baardskeerder cc, 2009
152 pp, soft cover; Buy now [button linked to shop as usual]
Includes Author's Note and Glossary

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