To Hell with Cronje
Two scientists, Reitz Steyn and Ben Maritz, find themselves in a transit camp for those temporarily and permanently unfit for battle during the Boer War. Captured on suspicion of desertion and treasonduring a trek across an unchanging desert of bushes, rocks, and ant hills to help transport a fellow-soldier, who has suffered debilitating shell-shock, to his motherthey are forced to await the judgment of a General Bergh, unsure whether they are to be conscripted into Berghs commando, allowed to continue their mission, or executed for treason. As the weeks pass, and the mens despair at ever returning to their families reaches its peak, they are…
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- ISBN: 978-1-934824-30-6
- EAN: 9781934824306
- Produktnummer: 6563615
- Verlag: Open Letter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 250 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.0 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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.Elsa Silke translates from Afrikaans and was the winner of the 2006 South African Translator's Institute/Via Afrika Prize for her translation of Karel Schoeman's This Life.
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