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Sunderland Book

Think [Nabokov's] Pale Fire, perhaps, or [Byatt's] Possession, but in a contemporary Afropolitan context. Jenefer Shute, author of Life-size, sex crimes and user ID. Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into book-form. He is uncomfortable about the role of ghost-writer, but the project becomes literary detective-work he cannot give up. Introduce De Villiers' beautiful daughter Taryn, and Art is ensnared. Sunderland alternates between sections, mostly in journal form, chronicling Art's struggle to make sense of De Villiers' fragmented and disordered text, and sections - scenes, notes, outlines - from that very work (also entitled 'Sunderland'). A novel of (literary) ideas as much as of character, this fascinating collaboration by two of South Africa's finest wranglers of words still comes to a literal crescendo; a finely tuned masterpiece to read in one sitting.Read More

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  • Foyles

    A novel of literary ideas as much as of character, this fascinating collaboration by two of South Africas finest wranglers of words comes to a literal crescendo. It is...

  • 1431410799
  • 9781431410798
  • Ken Barris, Michael Cope
  • 1 May 2014
  • Jacana Media
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
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