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May 5, 2016 · The Woman Next Door (Hardcover) Published September 27th 2016 by Chatto & Windus. Hardcover, 288 pages. more details. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The Woman Next Door (Paperback) Published February 7th 2017 by Picador.
Jun 6, 2016 · The woman next door by Yewande Omotoso Penguin Random House EAN: 9781784740344. Neighbours: a word loaded with connotations. The biblical instruction of “love thy neighbour”, Verwoerd’s “policy of good neighbourliness”, Robert Frost’s “good fences make good neighbours”, and the usual neighbourly mistrust, animosity, even prejudice come to mind.
Oct 10, 2016 · An interview with author Yewande Omotoso about her latest novel, The Woman Next Door, for Africa's Lit, the newsletter on African literature from South Afric...
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May 5, 2016 · "The Woman Next Door" by Yewande Omotoso is deeply thoughtful: There are the beliefs about race owned by South African society, there is memory, there is marriage and the breaking of marriages and there are the unexpected moments of pain which come upon us. The novel brings to mind Ecclesiastes. There is a time for everything.
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Yewande Omotoso. Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires.
The Woman Next Door. Yewande Omotoso. Chatto & Windus, 2016 - Cape Town (South Africa) - 279 pages. Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility and pruning both with a vim ...
Open Preview. The Woman Next Door Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4. “Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.”. ― Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door. 5 likes. Like. “Night was the real measure of love, Hortensia thought. Anything can sparkle in the daylight. But night – that was when humanity got tested.
