Middlepost Ex-Library Copy

Hardback

Condition: Good

This ex-library book is in reasonable condition does have the usual stamps and may have minor issues such as dog-eared corners and possibly creases >>Publisher's Synopsis A tragic-comic first novel set in South Africa at the turn of the century. The novel's hero emigrates from Lithuania because of anti-semitism. He arrives in South Africa and encounters a culture full of contradictions peopled by bizarre and colourful characters: Breedt and Quinn foes from the recent Boer War locked in a silent battle of wills; April their Shakespeare-spouting slave; Nakosa the Bushgirl with extra breasts; Gommie the half-caste who rises from the dead only to die again; the Scuteris travelling opera singers-cum-barbers who bring a day of magical festivity to the isolated settlement of Sher was born in South Africa in 1949 and settled in England in 1968. He has also written "Year of the King".