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The Umbrella Tree
Ringwood
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Penguin
,
1990
Z361018
1990
single work
novel
This story is set amidst the Soweto uprising in 1976. It explores both black and white resistance to apartheid and their brief meeting point in the shade of an umbrella tree in a rural homeland in South Africa.
