THE ENGLISH MAJOR’S DAUGHTER

Bambata Publishing will launch well-known Durban-based author Rubendra Govender’s new novel, The English Major’s Daughter this week.

Govender’s first novel, Sugar Cane Boy launched in 2008, has sold more than 6,000 copies. Following successful sales at local bookstores in 2008 and 2009, as well as being placed in all Durban Metro libraries and KZN Provincial libraries, the book has since been prescribed as an English setwork for grades 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 at several Durban schools.

In addition to being an author and a freelance writer, Govender currently teaches Life Sciences at Avoca Secondary School, co-incidentally, the school at which he matriculated, and a school at which his book Sugar Cane Boy has been prescribed in 2012.

Govender was inspired to write The English Major’s Daughter after a chance meeting with an expatriate English couple at an exclusive golf resort on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal. The novel, which took four years to complete, is set in 1992 and revolves around the lives of the Parker-Swanns, a dysfunctional English expatriate Army family, who settle on the south coast of KZN. Issues of family abuse and prejudice are candidly explored as the plot unfolds.

The English Major’s Daughter, ISBN 9781920546144, will be available at R125 at local branches of Exclusive Books Stores and Adams Books in Musgrave Centre.

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