Mattewis en Meraai by Mikro
Mattewis en Meraai (Perskor 1983 Second Edition, First Printing)
The Final Gonnakolk Novella of Mikro's Beloved Afrikaans Family Saga, Following the Offer Children
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Mattewis en Meraai: Die kinders
- Author: Mikro
- Publisher: Perskor, Johannesburg en Kaapstad
- Publication Date: 1983
- ISBN-10: 0628023596
- Edition Details: Tweede uitgawe (Second Edition), Eerste druk (First Printing), Perskor, 1983.
- Binding: Publisher's laminated pictorial hardcover boards in cream with olive and brown printing, printed spine title and Perskor logo.
- Physical Format: Slim octavo-sized hardcover. Sepia oval photograph of three figures to the front cover.
- Language: Afrikaans
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Boards: The cream laminated pictorial boards are clean and bright to the front and back. The spine shows slight creasing or denting around the middle and lower portion. Corners and edges appear sound.
- Interior: The title page and copyright page are clean, with no visible marks.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued). The illustrated laminated boards serve as the publisher's cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Mattewis en Meraai: Die kinders is the closing novella in Mikro's four-part series about the elderly Gonnakolk couple, Mattewis and Meraai Offer. Published by Perskor in 1983, it turns from the old couple to their children.
The story follows Tewis, Maria and Elisabet as the family slowly drifts apart after Meraai's death. Elisabet finds happiness, while her siblings struggle with love and inheritance.
The Mattewis en Meraai stories centre on Meraai Botes and many other colourful inhabitants of the fictional towns of Gonnakolk and Soetwater. They were adapted for the stage by P.G. du Plessis, staged by PACT in 1970, and later became a television series, which premiered in South Africa in August 1983, the same year as this edition. A pleasing copy for collectors of Afrikaans literature and popular Afrikaans fiction.
Author Profile: Mikro (Christoffel Hermanus Kühn)
Mikro was the pseudonym of Christoffel Hermanus Kühn, one of the most prolific Afrikaans authors of his generation, credited with around a hundred books under that name. He held a BSc degree in agriculture and a teaching diploma, and later served as chief editor of a farmers' magazine before becoming a full-time author from 1944 to 1949.
Besides the Mattewis en Meraai books, his other works include Die ruiter in die nag, Moord in Kompartement 1001E (1961) and Kinders van Meraai (Voortrekkerpers, 1962).
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