A mountaintop experience
By Unknown Author.
Description
South African Youth Literature Book of the Year, A Mountaintop Experience tells the story of Kathryn, a young girl frustrated by her meaningless life in a high-rise flat in Durban, South Africa with her mother and precocious older sister Charlene. She feels claustrophobic and dirty, smeared by the city that seems to press down on her, the roughness of humanity that brushes aganst her. There MUST be more to life than this. The posters on her walls express her yearnings: wild horses running free, the snow-capped Matterhorn and the Pietà, showing the love of a mother for her dead son&he...
ISBN(s)
0624030857, 9780624030850
