Brandwaterkom

Esther van Emmenes, a historian working in Fouriesburg, is researching the Anglo-Boer War in the Brandwater Basin. Rather than General Prinsloo’s surrender, she studies one man: Fanie Vilonel, a lawyer and gifted leader of the Senekal commando who, disillusioned, comes to fight on the British side, and who has married a prominent local woman while loving an English girl in town. Esther’s own forebears were traitors, and she widens her inquiry to others like him. Other voices keep crowding her work: Catharina, a ghost from the mountain caves where Boer women hid, who wants her story told, and Bullet, a hunter and veteran of the border war, who insists that his war belongs in it too. Behind them all, a writer who has set them in motion keeps showing through.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa, 1900

First published

2015 by Tafelberg

ISBN

9780624073369 (original)