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Even as an eleven year old I had a strong sense that the Universe was setting up nasty traps for me, all sorts of really horrible ways to die in which (and this is the crucial point) I would in some way be complicit in my own demise (and this before I had done anything to warrant this particular anxiety). Perhaps if I was in any way astute, if I did possess a special acuity, it was in respect of my own character. I have always been shit scared of the deranged universe and it s not really that stupid and irrational it gets all of us eventually. It s 1989, and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime, eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers himself the centre of his world. The son of an Afrikaans father and an English mother, wedged between a strident older and favoured younger sister, Jack allies himself with the family s beloved maid, Susie. Plagued by portents of doom, Jack nevertheless has firm views on race (complex), politics (straightforward), poofdas (inoffensive), God (dangerous), sex (bewildering), sisters (disappointing), parents (unfailing), Zulus (frightening) and the KGB (cunning). His Afrikaans family are wanting in a number of respects- they have too many children,

About the Author :
Jacques Strauss is a 30 year old South African. He studied philosophy at university, obsessed over Derrida and now writes reams of corporate copy for a London firm.

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Strauss writes with poise and comic timing. His prose is formal and correct; he establishes a tone of laconic regret yet sustains a striking lightness of touch particularly in passages of dialogue...it does no disservice to Strauss to say his highly enjoyable novel reads more as inspired memoir, so adroit is the telling... It is, above all, rich in symbols and subtexts His oblique treatment of the era’s fraught politics is beautifully done


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780224091305
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 143 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0224091301
  • Publisher Date: 19 May 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 381 gr


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