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1) The impostor
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Language
English
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Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brothers dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days, but whom Adam...
2) The quarry
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Language
English
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The Quarry is another novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. It opens with a chance meeting on a lonely stretch of road, when a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new congregation in an isolated village and the passenger, a fugitive from justice. When the minister realizes this and confronts his passenger overlooking an empty quarry, the response is deadly. As...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
"A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice.Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze between the bars covering the windows. The daughter of a German soldier, Gretl understands very little about how her grandmothers Jewishness brought her first to the ghetto, then to the train, and now, to...
4) Stolen lives
Author
Series
Jade de Jong investigations volume 2
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Author
Series
Detective Emmanuel Cooper mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
6) The promise
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family...
Author
Series
Yudel Gordon novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Abby Bukula, the grown daughter of parents killed during an anti-apartheid protest, repays the man who saved her life by teaming up with an eccentric psychologist to investigate attacks on the massacre's soldiers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Cry, the Beloved Country" is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man."
This is the most famous novel ever produced about Apartheid South Africa. "Cry,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big game hunter, and knitting devotee, who once boxed three rounds with Ernest Hemingway, she would land her plane wherever and whenever she chose. She was free with her favors, too, and her multitude of lovers came from all over the world
10) Random violence
Author
Series
Jade de Jong investigations volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
At the start of this stellar thriller from South African author Smith (Mixed Blood), Cape Town meth heads Godwynn MacIntosh and Disco De Lilly hijack wheeler-dealer Joe Palmer's Mercedes. When the two black men shoot Joe in the leg, the reaction of Joe's gold-digging American wife, a former model, is to say the least, unexpected. While honest cop Ernie Maggott tracks the carjackers, and sociopathic killer Piper pursues Disco, once his jailhouse wife,...
13) Pale horses
Author
Series
Jade de Jong investigations volume 4
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
cp2012.
Language
English
15) Mosaic
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Explores the darker sides of world politics and the human psyche in a tale that stretches from the quiet country lanes of England to the brutal torture chambers of South Africa.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[[2012] 2012]
Language
English
Description
Possessing keen financial insights that have enabled him to make millions for his hedge operation, Drew Havens endures an explosive six days during which six other talented brokers are killed after executing trades linked to his boss's lucrative fund.
18) Gold mine
Author
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the...
19) Lacuna
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, the man who wrote the scene of violence in which she was attacked. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The Lucy in his novel, Disgrace, is passive...
20) The prey of gods
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide...
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