Ingrid Winterbach

The Book of Happenstance

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A middle-aged lexicographer, Helena Verbloem, travels alone to Durban to assist in the creation of a dictionary of Afrikaans words that have fallen out of use. Shortly after her arrival, her apartment is burglarized, and her collection of precious shells, shells that she had been collecting for a lifetime, is stolen. Meeting with indifference from the local police, she decides to investigate the crime on her own, with the help of her new friend from the Museum of Natural History, Sof. While investigating the crime, Helena reflects on the life shes livedher ex-husband, her daughter, her lovers, her childhoodand begins to fall in love with her… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Winterbach, Ingrid (Übers.) / Winterbach, Dirk (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-934824-33-7
EAN: 9781934824337
Produktnummer: 11192604
Verlag: Open Letter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 254 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.2 cm 368 g
Gewicht: 368

Über den Autor

Ingrid Winterbach is an artist and novelist whose work has won the M-Net Prize, Old Mutual Literary Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, and the W.A. Hofmeyr Prize. She's also received the Hertzog Prize, an honor she shares with Breyten Breytenbach and Etienne Leroux.