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A Library to Flee
Die biblioteek aan die einde van die wêreld
Etienne van Heerden (born 1954)
Translated by Henrietta Rose-Innes
English editions
In EnglishA Library to Flee
Tafelberg · South Africa · September 2022 · Paperback · 640 pages
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Cape Town, 2016 to 2018: student protests shake the campuses, and a killer armed with a crossbow keeps striking. Three students share a translation class. Ian Brand, a hotshot liberal lawyer with a red Alfa, haunted by the border war and anxious for Afrikaans, is asked by right-wing businessmen to look into facial recognition for gated estates, until one angry tweet wrecks his life overnight. Thuli Khumalo, an outspoken protest leader raised in exile in London by a struggle-hero father, learns that he is tangled in a corrupt scheme and goes to China, claiming to be researching a book. Jerome Maarman, poor and coloured, gets pulled into the protests yet feels at home with neither of them, and tells his part himself. Ian longs for a library far out along a gravel track, open to every idea.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 624 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- South Africa
- First published
- 2019 by Tafelberg
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
9780624089216 (original)
9780624091059 (Tafelberg, South Africa)