South Africa
UJ-prys 2017 · Shortlist
Novel · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:At the Cape in 1795, William Ferdinand, a senior official of the Dutch East India Company and leader of its corps of clerks, watches a weak governor and a vain colonel fail to prepare the colony as the British close in.
UJ-prys 2012 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Waltz with Matilda”
Novel · 397 pages
AI-generated summary:From the balcony of his flat by the sea, a writer looks down at the outline of a man who has fallen to his death on the pavement below, and waits for a visitor he knows has been sent by his publisher, who has long been pleading for a new book.
UJ-prys 2003 · Winner
Eilande
Novel · 758 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A novel of the first decades of the Dutch settlement at the Cape, told around Eva-Krotoa of the Goringhaicona, her marriage to the Danish surgeon Pieter van Meerhoff, and their daughter Pieternella.