- Fiksie
- Engelse roman
Red Dog
A Frontier Novel
Willem Anker, Michiel Heyns
ISBN:
Epub ISBN:
9780795708527
Uitgewer:
Datum Vrygestel:
Prys (incl. VAT):
Formaat:
Sagteband, 432pp
Oor hierdie boek:
Op agt steek hy sy eerste grens oor en verlaat sy ouerhuis. Huis-uit, Kaap-uit, beskawing-uit. Uiteindelik wêrelduit.
Van die Langkloof af swerf Buys – oftewel Koning van die Basters, veelwywer, rampokker, swendelaar, voëlvry-verklaarde, pes van die regering. Oral verwek hy kinders; oral sluit rowers en weglopers by hom aan – ’n ganske Buysvolk. Hy tolk tussen Brit en Xhosa maar praat nét sy eie woorde.
En oral op sy drosterpad is daar die honde, altyd die honde en die af-oor gedierte wat Buys se jeukvoete op die pad gesit het. Op Buys se spoor, in sy kop, om sy kampvuur draai die kwylende bekke rond.
Hy is gebore in die Langkloof. Hy sterf teen die oewer van die Limpopo. Maar Buys is nie dood nie.
Red Dog is ’n roman oor grense en oor grond. In 2014 is die Afrikaanse uitgawe Buys met al wat prys is bekroon. Nou is dit meesterlik vertaal deur Michiel Heyns.
VERWANTE BOEKE
Piranha
Rudie van Rensburg, Karin Schimke
The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers
Finuala Dowling
Red Tide
Irma Venter, Karin Schimke
If The Dead Could Talk
Juliette Mnqeta
Paradise in Gaza
Niq Mhlongo
The Resurrection
Sihle Qwabe
Of Fathers and Fugitives
SJ Naudé, Michiel Heyns
Being Dianne
Qarnita Loxton
How to Stop Being a Naai
Mia Arderne
In the Midst of It All
Thabile Shange
The City is Mine
Niq Mhlongo
Love Marry Kill
Zukiswa Wanner
Sunshine and Shadows
Busisekile Khumalo
Fabrics of Love
Lebo Mazibuko
Making A Killing
Bonnie Espie
The Queer Book of Revelation
Siya Khumalo
A Soft Landing
Wisani Mushwana
Bantu Knots
Lebo Mazibuko
Suitcase of Memory
A'Eysha Kassiem
Darlings of Durban
Shafinaaz Hassim
A Library to Flee
Etienne van Heerden
Three Echoes
Marina Auer
Rubies and Rain
Busisekile Khumalo
Not Another Samoosa Run!
Nadia Cassim
The Heart Is the Size of a Fist
P.P. Fourie
Wisani and the Bafokeng Brothers
Thandi Moagi
Single Minded
Marina Auer
I Did Not Die
Tebello Mzamo
Haram
Zubayr Charles
Crimson Sands
Jeremy Vearey
A Remedy For Death
Sarah Naidoo
A Love that Hurts
Cathrine Phiri
Why Am I Like This?
Qaanitah Hunter
Medusa (English)
Rudie van Rensburg
Nine Hours
Lukhanyo Sikwebu
The Child
Alistair Mackay
Man Down
Irma Venter, Karin Schimke
The Wildest Beauty
Michiel Heyns
Double Edged
Marina Auer
The Burfee Seller's Daughters
Shafinaaz Hassim
If You Save Me
Lisa-Anne Julien
Still Breathing
Marita van der Vyver, Annelize Visser
A Love that Heals
Cathrine Phiri
Lifting The Lid
Bonnie Espie
Hell of a Country
David Cornwell
What's Wrong With June?
Qarnita Loxton
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
Alistair Mackay
Multitudes
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Ashes of Euphoria
Jean-Paul Willemse
Raiders
Rudie van Rensburg