Between Two Worlds

by Tlali, Miriam

• ISBN13: 9781551116051
• ISBN10: 1551116057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

Set in Soweto outside Johannesburg, Between Two Worlds is one of the most important novels of South Africa under apartheid. Originally published in 1975 under the title Muriel at Metropolitan, the novel depicts the life of an account typist in a large busy shop where most of the clientele are poor. The author's fine eye for detail provides an unrivaled sense of everyday life in the South Africa of that time.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(70)
1 How it all began	13	(6)
2 A feeling of insecurity	19	(7)
3 The boss	26	(8)
4 While the boss is away	34	(9)
5 Mixed encounters	43	(5)
6 Letters	48	(3)
7 Waiting	51	(12)
8 The lorry-driver's trump card	63	(7)
9 A token of love	70	(7)
10 A slap in the face	77	(12)
11 A lucrative proposition	89	(16)
12 Adam's advice	105	(9)
13 Friday	114	(24)
14 'Resign!'	138	(7)
15 Sophiatown	145	(8)
16 The passport	153	(4)
17 My mother's beckoning voice	157	(11)
18 'This is home!'	168	(5)
19 The final kick	173	(14)
20 The mechanic walks out	187	(5)
21 'What's happening to us?'	192	(9)
22 One human heart for another	201	(11)
23 I quit	212