Die getuienis

Having lost everything in Pretoria, Retha and Gerbrand now work at a Christian ministry centre in Limpopo and raise two boys there, sure that God, whom they call Father, guides every step. When a school friend invites Gerbrand to speak at a seminar in Ventershoop, the run-down prison town of his boyhood, they set out with a borrowed car, no money and faith that Father will provide. They tell the trip in turns: Retha upbeat and fond of words like "awesome", Gerbrand anxious and alert to Satan everywhere, even in a petrol attendant's bracelet. Visits to his mother and her third husband, to relatives and old friends bring up a brutal stepfather, a dead brother, army days, a girl he once loved and in-laws who looked down on him, while he wrestles with why God demanded Isaac from Abraham.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

160 pages in the original

Set in

South Africa

First published

2021 by Tafelberg

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9780624092353 (original)