Description: South African-born author Anli Serfontein humorously narrates the story of her journey from urban Johannesburg to small town Trier: birthplace of Karl Marx and the oldest town in Germany.
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" Funny and true-to-life, thoughtful, precise and entirely entertaining , "
Vito von Eichborn , veteran German publisher, on selecting it as Book of the Month, September 2008
Anli's second manuscript Traitor's Daughter was shortlisted for the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 - Non-Fiction