[The Housermaid's Daughter]
Year:
2013
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Year of publication:
2013
Pages:
416
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
In 1930, in the Karoo region of South Africa, Ada Mabuse was born, the natural daughter of the black woman who worked in the house as a servant for the Harrington family of Irish origin. Despite the racial differences and the inconvenience of having a single mother in her service, Mrs. Harrington welcomes them both as part of the family, doing her best to give Ada an education and encouraging her natural gift for music. The narrating voice of the novel is Ada's, who will tell us about the personal and social vicissitudes that took place before and during apartheid.