Klein konings

Two civil servants as different as can be are sent off by the Minister to inventory every apartheid and colonial statue in the country and propose what to do with them: Pixley, newly appointed, of Zulu nobility and keen to make his father proud, and Joubert, a departmental accountant who claims descent from General Piet Joubert. The timing is bad. Joubert leaves his dying father, a former water diviner, with his wife Alet, a medium, just as his mother’s ghost appears; Pixley is unsure where he stands with Memory, the Rwandan orphan he wants to marry. On the road, their own histories catch up with them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa

First published

2025 by Protea Boekhuis

ISBN

9781485316008 (original)