- Fiction
- English novel
Red Dog
A Frontier Novel
Willem Anker, Michiel Heyns
ISBN:
Epub ISBN:
9780795708527
Publisher:
Date Released:
Price (incl. VAT):
Format:
Soft cover, 432pp
About this book:
At eight he crossed his first frontier and left his mother’s house behind. Left his home (the first of many); left the Cape; left civilisation.
From the Langkloof, Buys roves – a giant, a legend, polygamist and swindler; the bane of government, father to chieftains and a Buysvolk of his own. Everywhere his wild oats are sown; everywhere renegades and criminals join his band of outcasts. He interprets between Xhosa and English but speaks only his own words.
And everywhere on his travels, always there is the pack of dogs and the earless red leader that put Buys on his restless path. In Buys’ tracks, in his head, around his camp fires the slavering jaws snap.
He was born in the Langkloof. He died on the banks of the Limpopo. But Buys is not dead.
Red Dog is a novel about frontiers and borders. The Afrikaans original Buys was hugely acclaimed in 2014. Now it has been masterfully translated by Michiel Heyns.
RELATED BOOKS
Double Edged
Marina Auer
A Library to Flee
Etienne van Heerden
I Did Not Die
Tebello Mzamo
Suitcase of Memory
A'Eysha Kassiem
Paradise in Gaza
Niq Mhlongo
Three Echoes
Marina Auer
Sunshine and Shadows
Busisekile Khumalo
The Child
Alistair Mackay
What's Wrong With June?
Qarnita Loxton
Red Tide
Irma Venter, Karin Schimke
Why Am I Like This?
Qaanitah Hunter
A Love that Heals
Cathrine Phiri
Mermaid Fillet
Mia Arderne
Single Minded
Marina Auer
Raiders
Rudie van Rensburg
Into the Sun
Takalani M
The Resurrection
Sihle Qwabe
The Wildest Beauty
Michiel Heyns
Nine Hours
Lukhanyo Sikwebu
Making A Killing
Bonnie Espie
Piranha
Rudie van Rensburg, Karin Schimke
A Soft Landing
Wisani Mushwana
Crimson Sands
Jeremy Vearey
The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers
Finuala Dowling
Rubies and Rain
Busisekile Khumalo
The Queer Book of Revelation
Siya Khumalo
Still Breathing
Marita van der Vyver, Annelize Visser
Darlings of Durban
Shafinaaz Hassim
The Wanderers
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Being Dianne
Qarnita Loxton
Bantu Knots
Lebo Mazibuko
In the Midst of It All
Thabile Shange
The City is Mine
Niq Mhlongo
Love Marry Kill
Zukiswa Wanner
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
Alistair Mackay
The Dao of Daniel
Lodewyk G. du Plessis, Michiel Heyns
Ashes of Euphoria
Jean-Paul Willemse
If The Dead Could Talk
Juliette Mnqeta
Medusa (English)
Rudie van Rensburg
Man Down
Irma Venter, Karin Schimke
A Remedy For Death
Sarah Naidoo
If You Save Me
Lisa-Anne Julien
Hard Rain
Irma Venter, Elsa Silke
Lifting The Lid
Bonnie Espie
Haram
Zubayr Charles
Wisani and the Bafokeng Brothers
Thandi Moagi
Of Fathers and Fugitives
SJ Naudé, Michiel Heyns
The Heart Is the Size of a Fist
P.P. Fourie
Hell of a Country
David Cornwell
Not Another Samoosa Run!
Nadia Cassim