Red Dog
Willem Anker author Michiel Heyns translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:25th Jun '20
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally.
Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. This is his story; the story of his country, and of our blood-soaked history.
A novel of serpentine, swashbuckling sentences that capture the mounting cruelty of the colonial project * International Booker Prize judges *
Sensational... Anker writes like a talented demon -- Antonia Senior * The Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month *
One of the best antiheroes you will read this year leaps from the pages * The Times Best Summer Books *
Ambitious... brings South Africa's bloody birth to life * Spectator *
A powerful and stark historical novel... A twenty-first century story in the vein of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness... This staggeringly original blend of fact and fiction is savage but totally gripping * NB Magazine *
It is the hottest piece of writing out here... a highly readable and relentless tale ... passionately nihilistic with inserts of great noir humour and even sometimes truly moving tenderness. * Marlene van Niekerk *
The Afrikaans equivalent of the postmodern cowboys-and-Indians tales of Cormac McCarthy * Rian Malan *
- Long-listed for Man Booker International Prize.
ISBN: 9781782274230
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432 pages