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This is Sindiwe Magona at her very best - writing about. First published 08 March 2012 34386 Beauty's Gift 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. Beauty's Gift is a moving tale of how four women decide to change their own fate as well as the lives of those closest to them.

For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. Institution ( see List), you should be able to access the LE onĬampus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing With a particularly acute perspective of woman's issues in strife-ridden South Africa, Magona's expansive genre of literary works reveal the anguish of the domestic worker who daily beats back the wolf of poverty from her door as found in the award-winning short story collection Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night the mother attempting to the seemingly insurmountable cultural and linguistic chasm to explain why her son killed an innocent woman in Mother To Mother the professional woman who battles against the scourge of AIDS brutally seeking access to her bed in Beauty's Gift or the young Xhosa girl blossoming under the gaze of her dedicated father in her latest novel Chasing the Tails of My Father's Cattle.Consult the article in its entirety.

Her first published works, To My Children's Children and Forced To Grow, coming on the cusp of the new Democracy, provide further evidence to the local and global community of the influence of prejudice but not its victory. Her probing and poignant stories, poem, articles, and plays examine the ever-thorny challenges within the apartheid and post-apartheid world. Beautys Gift Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night To My Childrens. For nearly thirty years, Sindiwe Magona has been authoring the lives of South Africans from a broad range of ethnic and economic backgrounds. Author Sindiwe Magona was born on 27 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu.

Beauty's Gift by Sindiwe Magona