Empire Settings: A Novel of South Africa
| By: | David Schmahmann |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780897336055 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780897339452 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the hOut of Printes of starting a new life. There he meets Tesseba, a curious and trusting artist who takes him in and marries him to save him from deportation. The two build a life together, but Danny continues to be plagued by a growing sense of loss. Twenty years later, Danny returns to a "new" South Africa in the hOut of Printes of saving a family fortune and finding the girl he has never forgotten.