
"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice... that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his...


This novel is set in the Free State town of Excelsior from the 1970s to the time of political liberation in the 1990s.