A powerful contemporary retelling of Heart of Darkness. One rainy night in Australia, Marlouw's sister phones with the request that he fetch her son `from that bloody country'. And Marlouw, with his club foot and hardened spirit, believes it is his fate to carry out this instruction. Drenched in sweat after an omius flight, his exodus takes him through a South Africa where poverty is rife, infrastructure has collapsed, AIDs has become widespread, and corruption reigns. He is told: `the whites who've stayed on, stay because they're t able to leave'. Yet still he journeys deeper into the unkwn - past the suffering masses alongside the road to the outer darkness of the rural areas. There are rumours that Koert is on the old family farm, w in the possession of the family's former workers. That there, guarded and isolated, he has built himself a powerful empire as the King of Meat. Here, on Ouplaas, at the end of Marlouw's terrible journey, the heart of terror is cut open ...
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribe Publications
ISBN-10
1925228363
ISBN-13
9781925228366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221829790
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Carlton North
Translated by
Luke Stubbs
Author Biography
Eben Venter is the critically acclaimed author of Wolf, Wolf (Scribe, 2015). He was raised on a sheep farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and migrated to Australia in 1986. He has won numerous awards for his work, and currently holds an honorary appointment as professional associate in the Institute of English in Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes University.
