Jacaranda in the Night
by Herman Charles Bosman
(edited by Stephen Gray)
Paperback, 213 pages
213 x 137 x 11mm (L x W x H)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4084-3
September 2000
Published by Human & Rousseau
Here is Bosman’s cool analysis of maleness and sadism down Voortrekker Street in the South African dorps of old, in the days of General Smut’s collapsing Union. Here is the seamy underside of boarding-house and school common room, exposed with masterly psychological sharpness, the erotic drives laid bare as they have never been so explicitly before.
Published Price : ZAR 137.00
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Suidpunt-Jazz (Afrikaans)
by Koos A. Kombuis
Paperback, 208 pages
213 x 137mm (L x W)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4450-6
September 2004
Published by Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd
Suidpunt - jazz is die verhaal van ‘n skywer, sy boek en sy karakters. Dit vertel ook die storie van ‘n geskiedenisdosent se onthutsende besoeke aan die verlede, met ‘n onkonvensionele aartsengel as metgesel - van Jan van Riebeeck se landing aan die Kaap tot Piet Retief se laer by Bloedrivier….En dit kan net tot een ding lei : ‘n piekniek by Dingaan!
Published Price : ZAR 150.00
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Beertjie En Sy Boytjies (Afrikaans)
by R.R. Ryger
Paperback, 96 pages
213 x 137mm (L x W)
ISBN-13: 978-0-624-04391-1
March 2006
Published by Tafelberg Publishers
Beertjie Booyse, 'n munisipale busbestuurder, en sy drie seuns woon in Mayville, Pretoria. Beertjie het nooit weer getrou na sy vrou se dood elf jaar gelede nie. Tuis het dinge oor die jare hulle eie koers ingeslaan. Tog het Pa Beer dit op sy eie bandelose manier bymekaar probeer hou.
Published Price : ZAR 146.00
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This Life
by Karel Schoeman
Paperback, 227 pages
215 x 137 x 18mm (L x W x H)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4552-7
June 2005
Published by Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd
Set in the isolated Roggeveld and spanning four generations of a family, This Life is the haunting evocation of a time and a landscape and a people. At the end of her life, a woman’s hesitant narration is an attempt to make sense of the people closest to her and the events in her family to which she was a silent witness - the effect of her mother’s increasingly overbearing behaviour; the relationship between her two brothers and the young woman they both loved; the mysterious disappearance of the younger brother and the woman.
Published Price : ZAR 155.00
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Memorandum - A Story with Pictures
by Marlene Van Niekerk
Hardcover 136 pages
222 x 222mm (L x W)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4730-9
November 2006
Published by Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd
In this title about a hospital experience the text and visual images offer parallel narratives that resonate poignantly with each other. Adriaan van Zyl's series of more than 20 paintings portrays a patient's experience from waiting room to ward giving a quietly disturbing view of the soullessness of hospitals in general. Marlene van Niekerk's accompanying story is a narrative by JP Wiid, a lonely man who is diagnosed with cancer of the liver just before his retirement. The night before a scheduled operation he starts writing a "memorandum" about an experience he had during his first stay at the hospital - sharing a ward with two enigmatic men in a state of postnarcotic euphoria, he overheard their strange conversation, one which was to have a profound effect on his life. He writes how, in the ensuing four months, he becomes a regular visitor to the library, anxious to learn more about the diverse concepts he had been exposed to for the first time. Everything new which Wiid learns about the world comforts him and helps him to accept his fate. Most importantly he makes a friend for the first time - an eccentric but very helpful librarian. While writing the memorandum, Wiid makes a life-changing decision - not to have the operation the next day. He chooses instead to make the rest of his life worth living by filling it with knowledge about cultures, structures, histories, literature and music. In the process he discovers his true self - and his true vocation.
Published Price : ZAR 268
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