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Sebastian Ritscher |
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WOLF, WOLF
Literary fiction set in post-apartheid South Africa.
Mattie Duiker is trying very hard to live up to his dying father's wishes. He is putting aside childish things, starting his first business, taking responsibility. His patriarchal, conservative Pa is proud. But at the same time, Mattie is pulled toward an altogether other version of masculinity, in which oiled and toned bodies cavort for him at the click of a mouse. His porn addiction both threatens his relationships and imperils his inheritance....
Venter’s WOLF, WOLF embodies some of the crucial changes in post-apartheid South Africa in the struggles of identity, principle and inheritance between the generations in Afrikaner society. But as well as its particular local virtues it is also a universally compelling novel about fathers and sons, models of masculinity, the limits to tolerance in a family, the difficulties of sexual freedom and social purpose, the irruption of unseen power shifts.
Venter left SA for Australia, where he now lives and cooks in the Byron Bay area. His writing has won many awards in South Africa, and he has taught at Rhodes University. With uncommon sensitivity to place, time and sex, WOLF, WOLF will reveal Eben Venter to the world outside his homeland as one of its most astute and acute observers, giving shape in story to some of the sea-changes of our time.
Venter’s WOLF, WOLF embodies some of the crucial changes in post-apartheid South Africa in the struggles of identity, principle and inheritance between the generations in Afrikaner society. But as well as its particular local virtues it is also a universally compelling novel about fathers and sons, models of masculinity, the limits to tolerance in a family, the difficulties of sexual freedom and social purpose, the irruption of unseen power shifts.
Venter left SA for Australia, where he now lives and cooks in the Byron Bay area. His writing has won many awards in South Africa, and he has taught at Rhodes University. With uncommon sensitivity to place, time and sex, WOLF, WOLF will reveal Eben Venter to the world outside his homeland as one of its most astute and acute observers, giving shape in story to some of the sea-changes of our time.
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Published 2015-03-01 by Scribe |
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Published 2015-03-01 by Scribe |