Wolf, Wolf

Late at night, a security camera shows Mattheus Duiker a strange visitor outside the family’s Cape Town mansion: pointed ears, an outsized canine head, dark eyes that are somehow wrong. Then a rough voice says his name, and he knows it is his lover Jack, dressed up as a wolf. Matt, whose father Benjamin once owned Duiker’s Motors, lets him in. He is biding his time until the old man dies and his own life can start. Excited by what lies ahead, the young lovers slip by the room where Benjamin, now blind and full of mournful loyalties and grim suspicions, sits listening for death to arrive. Their story becomes a searching look at fathers and sons, and at a man whose past has left him poorly prepared for a country changing fast.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

274 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa

First published

2013 by Tafelberg

ISBN

9780624054993 (original)

9780624055341 (Tafelberg, South Africa)

9781925106404 (Scribe Publications, Australia)