Klimtol

Ludo Loeloeraai once packed theatres with his yo-yo, dazzling crowds in a smoking jacket, his hair in a duck-tail. Grey now, and settled in Paternoster after a long life on the road, he still pines for a camerawoman he has not seen in decades, and a stain of blood on the road near Tweefontein will not leave his mind. Into the village comes Snaartjie Windvogel, finally free of the sugar house and certain, ever since her violin was crushed underfoot, that Matjiesfontein is closed to her for good. Eenslie Maree, fresh out of naval training, sets out to win her, though gossip says she sleeps with the builders and that old Ludo meets her near the lighthouse each morning. Then two dead bodies wash up at Bekbaai, one soon after the other, and talk turns to a curse from the sea.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

385 pages in the original

Set in

South Africa

First published

2013 by Tafelberg

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9780624057796 (original)