'Saturdays are Gold' is a fascinating book as much for its use of language and its wonderful prose as its timeless and universal story. Although the story is set in South Africa, with that country's unique cultural complications, it could just as easily be a story of the American south, or rural Australia.
Tadpoles view of the world is immaculately executed. The details he notices are wonderfully evocative of an era not so far gone. And the things that are unnoticed, and unsaid, about the society he lives in are even more telling to reader.
As with any story of the innocence of childhood, the story is filled with the major events of youth – the arrival of the family pet, the fully explored backyards of the neighborhood, and never solvable problem of no pocket money.
But the opening of the book, with the death of Tadpole's mother, and the damage that does to his little sister, prime the reader for something much more serious and sinister.
In an era of disposable light-entertainment, 'Saturdays are Gold' is a welcome addition to the world of serious literature.
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