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The dreamcloth

The dreamcloth

by Joanne Fedler
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Publication Date: 05/09/2005

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When Mia was a child, she told Asher that the dreamcloth took away her nightmares. This is a stirring work of great tenderness and courage. It is 1994 when Mia finally returns home, ambivalent, afraid of what she will find. A strong-willed journalist embroiled for the last decade in ravaged conflict zones; she arrives in Johannesburg to confront the secrets that have plagued her family for three generations. And, hidden in her bra, close to her heart, is the dreamcloth. When Mia finally retrieved the small patchwork cloth of beads and lace from Asher, the man she blames for her father's death a decade ago, she unwittingly regained the only clue to an expansive tale of lost love and anguish. The cloth, woven in the 1920s by a seamstress in a grim shtetl in Lithuania, veils the mystery of a forbidden love affair of Mia's paternal grandmother, Maya, as she fled anti-Semitic Europe and will lead Mia to a shattering truth. In Mia's search to reconnect with the places and people she left behind, she journeys through her childhood, through her relationships with her beloved father, Issey, her nanny, Sarafina, and best friend, Grace.
But, the first person she will have to face is her distant mother, Fran obsessed with the roses in her perfectly manicured, northern suburbs garden. Mia comes to terms with what has passed and been lost, she must decide: will she, like her nomadic ancestors, be a gypsy forever, or will she stay in South Africa? This is a sprawling and controversial epic that weaves together the present, past and distant past.
ISBN:
9781770091016
9781770091016
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
05-09-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Country of origin:
South Africa
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x15mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Joanne Fedler

Joanne Fedler is a speaker, publisher and the bestselling author of 14 books, including Secret Mothers’ Business, Things Without a Name and Unbecoming. She is Dov’s writing mentor, editor and middle daughter.

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