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It started at Lambasi in northern Pondoland and it ended not far from what is now known as Port Elizabeth. It is a hike that every South African should have the privilege of taking. For the survivors of the Grosvenor, as they clambered onto the rocks in 1792, they might as well have crash landed on Mars.
Walk takes the reader, step by step, day by day, on the castaway's horrific journey. While indisputably fiction, it steers a good deal closer to the historical truth than most nonfiction found on the shelves.
Walk is tale of suffering rivaling Aspley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World. It is the true story of a boy's survival in the face of impossible odds. It is a haunting parable on the meeting of Europe and Africa.
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James Whyle grew up in the Amatole Mountains of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Conscripted into the apartheid army, he was discharged on the grounds of insanity. He did everything in his power to assist the authorities in arriving at this diagnosis.
His story, The Story, was chosen by JM Coetzee as winner of the 2011 Pen/Studzinski competition. His novel, The Book of War was short listed for the Sunday Times Literary Award, and won the M Net Literary Award for best debut.
Review
"Generates hard beauty." - Darrel Bristow-Bovey, Times Live
This is a remarkable piece of writing. - Saturday Star
Fascinating - The Witness
Whyle is one of the most distinctive and interesting writers to emerge in South African fiction in years. His first novel, The Book of War, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and went on to win the M-Net Literary Award for a Debut Novel. In stately prose he revisited the Frontier Wars in the Eastern Cape, charnel fields drenched in blood and regret.He brings the same spare, mesmerising style to his second novel, Walk, which traces the horrific journey of the survivors of the Grosvenor shipwreck in 1782. - The Sunday Times
"Whyle... transforms written history into literature. Where the report gives sketchy outlines, he reimagines this as the war of people against nature, and of people against one another and against others. They become not just names, but characters. In short, Walk is an impeccably crafted literary masterpiece." - Ampie Muller, Daily News.
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- PublisherJacana Media
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1431409200
- ISBN 13 9781431409204
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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