Nineveh
An elegant and evocative novel about people, place – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers.Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in ‘the unlovely and unloved’. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest...
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An elegant and evocative novel about people, place – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers.Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in ‘the unlovely and unloved’. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest relocation.Katya’s unconventional approach brings her to the attention of a property developer
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781910709160
Publisher: Aardvark Bureau
Pages no: 238
Edition language: English
I never read Hal Herzog’s Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, but the title has always stuck with me as an excellent way to sum up humans’ relationship to the other species on this planet. Nineveh, by Henrietta Rose-Innes, is very much about the “some we hate” category. The critters in this cat...