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John Platt
reviewed Triomf on January 24, 2013 Triomf
Although the setting is a poor (white trash) family, The Benades, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in South Africa, the story could be regarded as the universal plight of the poorest of the poor in, especially, a capitalistic society. Sociologically it could be justified as a testimony of how a social system worked for all its participants or not. In the Benade family's case neither Apartheid, nor the soon to be Post Apartheid era did anything to drag the family out of the miserable life they were dealt. Like "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, the story deals with ordinary people in an economic class that nobody else wishes to acknowledge or accept as part of their reality and like Frank McCourt, Marlene van Niekerk uses humor to soften the blows dealt to these people on a daily basis. What is different between the two authors is that Frank McCourt wrote an autobiographical story of his Irish family, while Marlene Van Niekerk visited the community she is writing about, for a few months. She did manage however, to tell a compassionate story and leave the reader with a deep sense of sympathy for the forgotten, often despised poor 'peoples' of the world. The language, almost a dialect, makes it a truly South African, often hilarious, story, but it could well have been any extremely poor family anywhere in America, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Australia or elsewhere. A brilliant book! It is a very difficult story to swallow for those who cannot handle this kind of poverty and would rather ignore it than mentally address it. If you couldn't stomach "Angela's Ashes" you won't be able to handle this book either. But for everyone else it is a brilliant read that will enrich your perception of life.
Kalahari.com description: Marlene van Niekerk's multi-award-winning novel Triomf tells the story of the four residents of 127 Martha Street in the then 'poor white' suburb of Triomf, built on the ruins of old Sophiatown, once the vibrant and notorious centre of black life in Johannesburg. Set on the eve of South Africa's transition to democracy, this story of a highly dysfunctional Afrikaans family illustrates the fear and trepidation that was felt about the political changes sweeping the land, and the earnest and sometimes amusing attempts to makes sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on the white underclass who should have been its main beneficiaries. Translated from the Afrikaans by Leon de Kock, Triomf was awarded the CNA Literary Award and the M-Net Prize, as well as the prestigious Noma award for best book in Africa. Marlene van Niekerk is also the author of Agaat.
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