In this earnest historical novel , Chase-Riboud humanizes the indignities endured by Sarah Baartman , a young woman from South Africa 's Eastern Cape , who was lured to Europe in 1810 and displayed as a scientific oddity and sideshow curiosity -- even after her death in 1816 .
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South Africa /location/country/administrative_divisions Eastern Cape
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