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    • Ons boeke: bestel hier / Our books: order here
  • Novel: With The Safety Off
    • Extract from the novel by Graeme Feltham co-published with Dyehard Press
  • Poems: Crows in the Coral Tree
    • A collection of poems in English by Heidi Papadopoulos
  • Fiksie: Te Veel Sorge
    • Uittreksels uit Hans Pienaar se 'verhaal in stukke'
  • Roman: My China
    • Hans Pienaar se satire oor die derde mag, die ANC en China
  • Fotogedigte: Uithoeke/Outcorners
    • Hans Pienaar se unieke versameling fotogedigte, gebaseer op uitstallings oor etlike jare. Beperkte oplaag.
  • Short stories: Gary Cummiskey
    • Extract: Gone Gone
  • Bundel: Alchemie van die Meeue
    • Heidi Papadopoulos se eerste is 'n leeservaring soos min. Bestel by [email protected]
  • Novel: The Virgin in the Treehouse
    • Extract from Willemien de Villiers's second novel following on her best-selling Kitchen Casualties
  • Novel: My China
    • Hans Pienaar's satire on the third force, the ANC and China
  • Blog: Hans Pienaar
    • Notes, thoughts and think pieces by Hans Pienaar
  • Roman / bundel/ traktaat / tesis: Chaos, of Op Soek na Superman
    • Uittreksels uit Hans Pienaar se ondefinieerbare roman/bundel kortverhale / traktaat /pamflet/wetenskaplike tesis.
  • Bundel: Notas uit die empire
    • Uittreksels uit die tweede bundel gedigte deur Hans Pienaar
  • Drama: The Good Candidate
    • The Good Candidate premiered on January 30 2014 at Artscape in Cape Town.
  • Koekies en tee: Die Afrikaanse pers en apartheid
    • Uittreksel uit Chaos, of op soek na Superman, om meer lig te werp op Nasionale Pers se rekord as hervormer.

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A young woman with an unshakable faith in the Immaculate Conception awaits celestial instruction while living in a treehouse at the back of a friend’s home. A failed artist whose deepest desires are only ever revealed to her in the dreams which she never remembers. A wise woman who lives in a red car. A domestic worker whose daily experience of atrocity forms the fabric of her life. And the King whose chest is home to a bird of paradise. 

“Exquisitely crafted tale by a talented writer … stylish, sensual and lyrical.”
 - Marita van der Vyver_


 

“Lily sucks in her stomach. Halfway between chunky and plump, she thinks gloomily as she turns around and notices that she is developing another pocket of fat at the base of her neck. A thickening that reminds her of yoked cattle. She pulls her faded green kimono from its hook and slips it on, wondering if Ina still wears her red one; long-ago gifts from their mother. At least Raktim loves her curves, she thinks; the softness of her belly and her full breasts. And recently she read somewhere that fat women in Mauritania are desirable status symbols, some even force-fed from puberty, like geese for pâté.”

 




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