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The Curator
Jacques Strauss
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Description for The Curator
Paperback. Werner holds a tedious job in the administration department of the local university and dreams of owning his own gallery. His father is bedridden, hovering on the edge of death, and furious, as he has been for twenty years. As Werner feels his own life slip away, his thoughts turn to murder as a means to correct the course of all their futures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976. In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the family's black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the principal of a state-run school camp who lives nearby with his wife and their two sons, Werner and Marius. As Hendrik becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened, his wife worries about her neighbours, a poor white family whose malign influence on her son Werner is - she believes - making his behaviour inexplicably strange and ... Read more
Longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976. In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the family's black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the principal of a state-run school camp who lives nearby with his wife and their two sons, Werner and Marius. As Hendrik becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened, his wife worries about her neighbours, a poor white family whose malign influence on her son Werner is - she believes - making his behaviour inexplicably strange and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099597728
SKU
V9780099597728
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Ref
99-28
About Jacques Strauss
Jacques Strauss was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. His first book, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V, won the Commonwealth Book Prize, Africa. He lives in London with his partner and works as a freelance writer.
Reviews for The Curator
With its forcefully characterised anti-hero Werner, this is a book that will conjure favourable comparisons with other South African literary masters.
Barry Forshaw
Independent
Murder is everywhere you look in this dark and gripping novel, but it's often achingly funny.
Kate Saunders
The Times
Strauss mixes two narratives together with ... Read more
Barry Forshaw
Independent
Murder is everywhere you look in this dark and gripping novel, but it's often achingly funny.
Kate Saunders
The Times
Strauss mixes two narratives together with ... Read more