The Crack - Couverture souple

Radmann, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780743998 ISBN 13 : 9781780743998

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2014

Synopsis

The tensions and complexities of 1970s South Africa are brought vividly to life in this dark and powerful literary thriller

Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband in his new job as a plain-clothes policeman and specialist interrogator. Hektor-Jan heads off to work on New Year's Day, aware that he is unbearably close to a bloody drama about to unfold.

As Janet's world tightens and threatens to fracture, she must look to her children and cling to the support of Alice, her black maid, and Solomon, her ever-faithful gardener. All too conscious of her own emotional fragility, Janet watches her mother slip into the folds of 'Old Timers' disease. And next door, the lurking, unfathomable Doug is up to no good. As the crack in the swimming pool widens, can Janet bridge the gaps that threaten them all?

Written with tenderness and disquieting power, Christopher Radmann exposes a brutal centre that cannot hold - and reveals how in apartheid South Africa, things must crack and fall apart.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Radmann is from South Africa but has lived in England for the last twelve years. He is Head of Sixth Form and Head of English at a boarding school in Hampshire, England, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780743998
• ISBN 13: 9781780743998
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible