Mandarin, 1992, Paper Back, Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
vii, 899pp; covers a tad worn,internally very good. Half Indian, half African and beautiful. Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid, consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia at last finds refuge in a brothel deep in the veldt. There, she learns to use her brilliant mind and extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. Then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own. An Oxford undergraduate, Peekay is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship - and a white man. And in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed, their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences...; 175 x 110mm
vii, 899pp; covers a tad worn,internally very good. Half Indian, half African and beautiful. Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid, consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia at last finds refuge in a brothel deep in the veldt. There, she learns to use her brilliant mind and extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. Then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own. An Oxford undergraduate, Peekay is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship - and a white man. And in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed, their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences...; 175 x 110mm