Lang skaduwees in Afrika | Romance & Sagas
Connie Luyt
Human & Rousseau
Luyt's fifth novel tells the romantic love stories of a grandmother, a mother and granddaughter.
The novel starts in 1903, when (grandmother) Francine, with some other Afrikaners, trekked to Kenya after the Anglo-Boer War – a fascinating era about which surprisingly little fiction has appeared in Afrikaans.
Her daughter, Maia, experiences the graceful colonial Kenya as well as the horror of the Mau Mau murders, and returns to South Africa. The last journey is that of the granddaughter, Christine, to their former farm Tene-na-Tene in Kenya. What she finds here is not what she has come to look for or even expected in her wildest dreams: for the Swahili word ‘Tene-na-Tene’ means ‘for ever and ever’.
In this novel, Luyt combines love, history and romance that will captivate the reader for a long time.