A few years ago I read a book about a young man from South Africa during apartheid who would risk his life to travel back and forth over the northern border to Botswana.
He travels to Botswana and becomes a gardener for a woman who lives alone. He is black and she is white.
I read the book within the last 10 years and it has stayed with me. I don’t remember the name or the author, but I think this would be a good book for my book group to read.
I am looking for a children’s book I had as a child. It had short stories (1-2 pages) per story and they were different stories from around the world. There were a lot of different stories – at least 25 plus.
I recall three – one was the leprachaun, another about a boy who had egg nest soup and I think there was one about ananzi
I got the book as a gift – it would have been late 1980’s or early 1990’s. I think it would have been published in South Africa.