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Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband in his new job as a plain-clothes policeman and specialist interrogator. Hector-Jan heads off to work on New Year’s Day, aware that he is unbearably close to a bloody drama about to unfold. As Janet’s world tightens and threatens to fracture, she must look to her children and cling to the support of Alice, her black maid, and Solomon, her ever-faithful gardener. All too conscious of her own emotional fragility, Janet watches her mother slip into the folds of Old Timers” disease, and next door, the lurking, unfathomable Doug is up to no good. As the crack in the swimming pool widens, can Janet bridge the gaps that threaten them all? Written with tenderness and disquieting power, The Crack exposes a brutal center that cannot hold, revealing how, in apartheid South Africa, things must crack and fall apart.
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A native of South Africa, Christopher Radmann has lived in the U.K. for the last 12 years. The head of Sixth Form and English at a boarding school, he lives in Hampshire, U.K.
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'A taut and imaginative novel about apartheid-era South Africa, full of niggling symbolism, imperfectly concealed secrets and fractured lives.' D. J. Taylor
'More than an extended metaphor on apartheid as madness, as Radmann's use of remarkable detail and vivid,sometimes grisly imagery redeems the story from mere allegory. For all readers of serious fiction.' - Library Journal
'Segregated South Africa is a complicated, surreal subject that defies explanation. Brave and intense, The Crack dares to challenge the idea that complicity is less dangerous than aggression.' - ForeWord Reviews
'A well-written and powerful tale which shows convincingly how corrosive apartheid can be, even to those who are its supposed beneficiaries...it drives home a moral lesson which a reader is not likely to forget quickly.' - Crime Review
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- PublisherOneworld Publications
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1780743998
- ISBN 13 9781780743998
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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