Red Dust: A Novel
by:
Gillian Slovo (author)
"Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa."—San Francisco Chronicle "Written with the pace of a thriller"—Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left...
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"Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa."—San Francisco Chronicle "Written with the pace of a thriller"—Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393323993 (0393323994)
ASIN: 393323994
Publish date: February 17th 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Red Dust is a fantastic, page turning court room drama set in South Africa.The murder of Alex Sizela in 1985 has been left unsolved and the body unfound. Sarah Barcant flies from New York back to her childhood hometown to help her friend and mentor find some sort of peace for Alex's grieving parents...
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