MAMA

In the dark outside a British blockhouse in 1901, an Irish soldier hears a voice crying from the wire.Mama.Johannes Erasmus - Rassi - is sixteen years old and bleeding in the veld. He doesn't know his mother is in Bethulie Concentration Camp. He doesn't know that the man who shot him is now deciding whether to leave him there.Two years earlier, Rassi rode out from Plaas Vergenoeg with his father and the Krugersdorp Commando, certain the war would be short and the Boers would win it. He was wrong about both.Mama follows one Boer boy's passage from the farm he loved to the wire he couldn't cross - through Talana Hill, Colenso, and the slow grinding war that came after - told from the side of the conflict that history has largely left in silence.The companion novel to A Violent Shade of Orange. The same battles. The other side of the ridge.

Pagina's: 227, Paperback, Independently published