Cross of Gold Ame Verso

Cross of Gold Ame VersoCross of Gold is an expansive, heartrending, anger inducing portrayal of Black life in South Africa after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. Through the experiences of a range of characters, chiefly Mandla Zikode and his mother, Sindisiwe, the novel portrays the Sharpeville massacre and its brutal aftermath, the hardship of exile, and the brutal impact of the apartheid regime on Black lives and personhood. It depicts apartheids legion of crimes against

yet with her friend Bram Nash in hospital suffering an infection of his old war wound

and among the eccentric monks

no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance

the indigenous population—believed long extinct—comes back to the planet they know as Alflolol

This summer

Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole

Illustrated with lots of playful details and movement

Gemma's not sure if she's brave enough to go to her music audition

And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new

is forever chatting

he is the original boy-dinosaur who cried wolf

ghostly activity unnerves the cast