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Heaven Forbid

In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extended family. There`s exuberant Grandpa, who sings and races horses; chain-smoking Auntie Fee, who always sides with the ogres in fairy tales and who makes up her own stories about Martin`s dead father; and above all, Georgie, the family`s Zulu servant and Martin`s confidant. But this cosy world of certainty ends as Martin`s tale turns to political and personal tragedy. He can`t possibly foresee the defeat of the liberal government that will usher in a new era of bigotry and intolerance, not appreciate the significance of the fact that Dr Voerwoerd, architect of apartheid, is a neighbour. And what is he to make of dour, racist Gordon, his mother`s husband-to-be, a man who seems determined to shatter the carefree world of the Donallys for good.

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