Introducing Eve: Sandra Charles’ South African Lolita
Eve’s first memory is from when she’s four years old: they’re playing under the mulberry tree in the back yard of her grandmother’s house in Kensington.
When she laughs at her father’s jokes, he and his friends chortle with her. Until he tells her to fetch his belt from the bedroom. So begins Eve’s story — her exploration of men, and the mixed messages they send.
Her curiosity gets the better of her: first with the babi around the corner who gives her her first pasela sweets, then the Jewish shopkeeper who likes to watch her try on dresses in the fitting room, his hands in his pants. It all just seems like fun, until she crosses a line with Mr Simon, her standard-five art teacher.
Playing Lolita is a dangerous hobby, she learns. And no one will believe in her innocence, least of all herself.
Eve is an An engrossing, disturbing and highly readable novel set in Kensington, Cape Town in the sixties and seventies.
About the author
Sandra Charles was born and raised in Kensington, Cape Town.
In 1975 she left for Brazil and opened a beauty salon there at the age of nineteen. Three years later she moved to Austria, where she still lives today, and started a business as a make-up artist.
After her fourth child was born in 1986, she began to expand her business to include photoshoot production. It was at this point that she started to playfully scribble on Eve.
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- Eve by Sandra Charles
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EAN: 9780795703997
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