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Persomi's dreams are much bigger than the world of poverty and deprivation that surround her in the Bushveld of the 1940s and 1950s in South Africa. Persomi is young, white and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm. Persomi's world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her. Her older brother, Gerbrand, is her lifeline and her connection to the outside world. When he leaves the farm to seek work in Johannesburg, Persomi's isolated world is blown wide open. But as her very small world falls apart, bigger dreams become open to her -- dreams of an education, a profession, and of love. As Persomi navigates the changing world around her -- the tragedies of WWII and the devastating racial strife of her homeland -- she finally discovers who she truly is and where she belongs.
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Irma Joubert is gebore en getoe in die Bosveld (Nylstroom) en het aan UP studeer. Sy begin eers skryf toe sy einde 2004 aftree ná 35 jaar van onderwys. Sy publiseer verskeie artikels en kortverhale in tydskrifte en word in 2005 aangewys as Media24 se "Spesialis Joernalis van die Jaar". Beide haar Tussen stasies-trilogie en haar Pontenilo-trilogie, asook die eerste boek van haar Oorlogstrilogie, naamlik Immer wes, is in Nederlands vertaal waar dit telkens onder die topverkopers tel. Vier van haar boeke is reeds in Duits vertaal en HarperCollins in Amerika het The girl from the train (Tussen stasies) in 2015 wêreldwyd bekend gestel.
