Karel Shoeman, Author, Karel Schoeman, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85619-200-2
Employing various stylistic strategies--first- and third-person voices, past- and present-tense narratives--to create a mood of relentless tension, South African author Schoeman ( Another Country ) effectively portrays a man struggling to come to...
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Karel Schoeman, trans. from the Afrikaans by Else Silke. Archipelago (Random, dist.), $18 trade paper (210p) ISBN 978-0-914671-15-2
An elderly woman on her deathbed recalls a rural, isolated life before and just after the Boer wars, in this novel from one of South Africa’s most award-winning authors. Sussie recalls her lonesome childhood and unmarried adult life: the only...
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Karel Schoeman, Author, Marion V. Friedmann, Translator Summit Books $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64425-3
Detail upon remorseless detailof the treeless South African veld, of weeds erasing narrow roadways, of farmhouses peeling and unrepairedset the tone of this apocalyptic novel about a land whose white masters have been defeated and most of whom have...
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