Skepsel

Three narratives, each in its own voice, cross at points. Rebecca Maas, who once built eco-toilets in South African townships and has since settled in Holland with Lindiwe and their son Mandla, comes home to nurse her dying father Henk. His self-designed house is run by Pris, a system that speaks in the voice of Rebecca's late mother, assembled from letters and taped bedtime stories, and some rooms copy rooms from the family's past. Addressed only as "you", the cyborg artist Sulla Čapek, part machine in eye and limb, weds a supertanker. On Svalbard, a woman whose married lover Howard has gone missing digs up vast bone-like objects that are not bone and show no decay. Meanwhile a virus moves across the globe, and talk of a planet at its last days is everywhere.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

352 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa, Norway

First published

2020 by Queillerie

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9780795802171 (original)