Alexander Strachan

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• Brandwaterkom

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  UJ-prys 2016 · Shortlist

  Brandwaterkom

  AITitle translated by AI:“Brandwater Basin”

  Alexander Strachan

  Novel · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:In the Brandwater Basin in the eastern Free State during the Anglo-Boer War, General Marthinus Prinsloo surrenders with more than 4,000 men in July 1900, amid rumours of treason, while Boer women hide in mountain caves to escape the concentration camps.

• Dwaalpoort

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  Dwaalpoort

  Alexander Strachan

  Novel · 317 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Five narrators tell of one weekend on Dwaalpoort, a supposedly paradisal hunting farm, where a judge must find his trophy, his wife was once a stripper, and the farmer Henning distrusts Bullet, childhood friend of the previous owner’s daughter Rentia.