📱 eBook en inglés HEAVEN FORBID

In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extended family. Theres exuberant Grandpa, who sings and races horses; chain-smoking Auntie Fee, who always sides with the ogres in fairy tales and who makes up her own stories about Martins dead father; and above all, Georgie, the familys Zulu servant and Martins confidant.

But this cosy world of certainty ends as Martins tale turns to political and personal tragedy. He cant possibly foresee the defeat of the liberal government that will usher in a new era of bigotry and intolerance, not appreciate the significance of the fact that Dr Verwoerd, architect of apartheid, is a neighbour. And what is he to make of dour, racist Gordon, his mothers husband-to-be, a man who seems determined to shatter the carefree world of the Donallys for good...