Red Dog

Author: WILLEM. ANKER

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  • : $22.99 NZD
  • : 9781782274230
  • : Pushkin Press, Limited
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  • : January 2020
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  • : 2008
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Description

A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voice


 


In the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally. Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. Red Dog is a brilliant, fiercely powerful novel - a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed, based on the life of a real historical figure.