Kalahari Passage (Epic Koba) - Softcover

A very strong and admirable novel; Candi Miller has given voice to a people hunted and harried to near-extinction -- Christopher Hope A storming novel by the hugely talented Candi Miller; these are a cast of characters to make you care, set in a superb evocation of time and place -- Rachel Holmes, author of The Hottentot Venus Miller's powerful and evocative tale of displacement, love and longing has many wonderful details and moments of real magic. I fell in love with Koba, and I was entranced. -- Amanda Smyth A finely drawn portrait of a disappearing world - humane and exciting * Times Literary Supplement *

'Now I must go back to squat in the sand with my people; I must get my water from roots and my food with a bow and arrow.' Orphaned as a young child, Koba, a San bushman, has lived most of her life as the adopted daughter of a white, farming family. But when her love affair with their son, Mannie, is discovered, Koba is arrested and sent for repatriation to the lands of the Kalahari Desert. When her corrupt police guard hands her over to predator Andre Marais, a vindictive Boer who murdered her parents and is intent on killing her too, Koba knows she must escape and flee across the barren South West African sandveld.To survive she uses all she remembers of her San hunter wiles to find her nomadic tribe. But will she stay alive long enough to succeed after years of livigin among whites?Meanwhile, Mannie has set out to remdezvous with Koba, hitch-hiking across southern Afica to find her. But who will get there first - her lover or her pursuer?