Black Petals - Couverture souple

Rostron, Bryan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1770096485 ISBN 13 : 9781770096486

Editeur : Jacana Media, 2009

Synopsis

A cautionary tale about organized crime in modern South Africa, this thrilling mystery introduces unassuming archivist Macaulay Vogel, who is examining a recently discovered cache of old police archives. Sorting out the documents, Vogel is jolted when he comes upon a surveillance file about himself. It’s a terrible shock: he doesn’t recognize this person at all. Had he suffered a memory loss in his youth? Had someone stolen his identity? To find some answers, he seeks out old friends: a lover, former comrades, and even his nemesis, Boschard, an eerie former security policeman. At the same time Vogel is making his rounds, there are signs of growing racial anger over the excavation of a mysterious accumulation of bones in the center of Cape Town, which might be a secret human burial pit. Amidst the personal and civic confusion, Vogel begins to crack, despairing of his lapsed hopes and the lost love of a woman named Marda.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bryan Rostron is the author of My Shadow, which was commended for the Commonwealth Writers prize, and Till Babylon Falls. He has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, New York Times, Private Eye, Spectator, and Sunday Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jacana Media
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770096485
• ISBN 13: 9781770096486
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible