A lion on the landing - Memories of a South African youth (Paperback)

In A lion on the landing Elsa Joubert provides a window into the past of the Afrikaner people. She uses her own life story as a way of portraying the reality of living as an Afrikaner child in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the same formula that she applied in her novel, The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, to reveal the truths of life for black people in South Africa.