THE LAND WITHIN

Set in modern day South Africa, THE LAND WITHIN is the story of what happens when Henry Knott and his pregnant wife, Marian, return to the farm where Henry grew up - and which he and his parents left under tense and distressing circumstances as his parents' marriage broke up. Henry's part in his own family's history is mercilessly uncovered in the course of a single, dramatic day spent at the farm.

Alistair Morgan's previous novel is SLEEPER'S WAKE (Granta 2009/South Africa, Penguin/Holland, Ambo Anthos/Italy, Fandango/Portugal, Editorial Bizâncio/Filmed by Bioskope Pictures/Winner of the 2010 First-time Published Author Award, South Africa/Shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Region and the University of Johannesburg Prize for the best creative debut work in English, 2010). His short stories have twice appeared in The Paris Review. As a result, he has been awarded the 2009 George Plimpton Prize for fiction and been short-listed for the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing. His work has also been selected for the O. Henry Awards Anthology (2008) and the National Magazine Awards in America (2009).