'Fiela's child'...
This noval tells how we are powerless before authority, and how lies can change a person's life, and the search of truth and one's identity.
http://www.amazon.com/Fielas-Phoenix-Fiction-Dalene-Matthee/dp/0226510832
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiela's_Child
Fiela's Child is a South African novel written by Dalene Matthee.
The story is set in the forests of Knysna in South Africa in the nineteenth century, and tells the story of a Cape Coloured woman, Fiela, and her family who adopt an abandoned white child. Nine years later the child is taken away from the Fiela and forced to live with a white family of woodcutters who claim he is their lost son. It is ironic that his living conditions with the white people are actually much worse than with his coloured family who are seen as lower class because of their race. The climax of the story unfolds a few years later when the boy forces his "mother's" guilt to confess he is not actually her son and he returns to Fiela and family whom he chooses as his own.
(http://youtu.be/V_I_WuqP7zw)
