Three connected stories exploring issues of race in contemporary South Africa follow three white men whose lives are changed by unexpected confrontations with the realities of life for black South Afr
Martin Mynhardt seems invincible. Violence surrounds him, yet he remains unscathed: a woman asks him the time, then leaps in front of a train; after a mine riot, he watches hoses sweep scattered body
Elisabeth Larsson, a young Swedish woman stranded in the wild jungle of eighteenth-century Africa, discovers new passions and a distaste for society in the initially discomfitting company of Adam Mant
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer who has lost his gift for the word. That is, until, he meets Rachel, a woman destined to become the great love of his life, a love greater for bei
