Onrus op Steynshoop

Steynshoop, a dwindling town on the N3, has boomed since Chinese investors arrived, with new shops, a casino hotel and a secretive factory said to process a herb from Lesotho that grants a kind of insight. Benna Potgieter, once a prodigy, later a university dropout, has worked as a hairdresser for his mother, Vera, ever since his father was shot at work, and he hears the town's news from his clients: council gossip, a secretive farmers' league, one woman's fling with the wealthiest of the Chinese, while the township seethes at being left out. He runs a small magazine of philosophy and language games with his friend Sarel and writes a novel about fathers and sons, but cannot leave. Then Fonny, the painter who once walked out on him without a word, comes back, carrying her own losses.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

304 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa

First published

2024 by Human & Rousseau

Author's age

76 when first published

ISBN

9780798184724 (original)