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"A dark and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the Book of Revelation--an unholy epic that reenvisions the catastrophic violence of European "civilization" as a hooded rider who spreads slaughter across the African continent--a work that is as unnerving as it is intellectually provocative.
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About the Author
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1951, Mike Nicol is the author of several novels, among them Horseman, This Day and Age, and The Powers That Be, and many works of nonfiction, including A Good-Looking Corpse and The Waiting Country. He lives in Muizenberg, South Africa.
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South African novelist Nicol (This Day and Age, LJ 12/92) has written a vivid but relentlessly dark and bitter tale of a young man beset by adversity. In a European forest in an unidentified but seemingly mythic time, a young man ostracized after his widowed father is hanged for murder falls into a life of crime. Captured and vilely treated in a monastery, he eventually escapes and is rescued by a Gypsy woman. Leaving her, he returns to the company of another outcast he has met along the way. They have adventures as they travel, but his companion dies. The youth becomes a man and takes the mythic name of Daupus, meaning death. He leads a small band of adventurers to the goldfields, where they take on the impossible challenge of being mercenary soldiers. Though powerfully written, this book is fraught with degradation and hopelessness. For academic and large public libraries.
Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md.
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679760393
- ISBN 13 9780679760399
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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