Red Dog
A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voiceWinner of four major South African prizesAt the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally.Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. This is his story; the story of his coun…
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Weitere Autoren: Heyns, Michiel (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78227-443-8
- EAN: 9781782274438
- Produktnummer: 31658591
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 586 KB
Über den Autor
Willem Anker was born in Citrusdal in the Western Cape in 1979 and lectures in creative writing at Stellenbosch University. His first novel, Siegfried, was published in 2007. Red Dog was published in Afrikaans in 2014 and won six major literary prizes in South Africa. It is his first novel to be translated into English.
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