Divide the NightAgain Ebersohn's reluctant hero is psychiatrist Yudel Gordon, working with his clear-eyed policeman friend Freek Jordaan. And the criminal here, who comes to Yudel for treatment by court order, is elderly Johann Weizmann--who has just killed his eighth black victim, this time a starving child who came looking for food in Weizmann's storeroom (the door to which is often left temptingly open). To his family and the Special Police, Weizmann is a hero. But Yudel knows he is a demented man driven to kill--so the doctor is soon looking for evidence to get his patient put away: he searches for an eyewitness to the latest killing, a witness who happens to be a black activist hunted by the Special Police for the murder of two policemen. And though there's an implausibility here--Yudel's uncharacteristically self-deluding hope that the activist's evidence will help convict Weizmann--everything else measures up to the power of Yudel's debut in A Lonely Place to Die: insistent pace, sharply intriguing characters (covering the whole political/racial spectrum), and the very convincing menace of the shadowing, torturing Special Police--Kirkus Reviews. |
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African Afrikaans Bill Hendricks brother chair Cissy Abrahamse close Colonel corner cottage pie dark desk Dippenaar door eyes face father feet Flippie Freek friends front going Graham Roberts hand head hear Hillbrow Hymie Irena Johannesburg Johnny Weizmann Jordaan kaffirs killed learnt light light sleeper listening lived living-room looking at Yudel Marion Mimi mind Mister Gordon Mister Weizmann moved Muntu Majola never Nieuwenhuysen night nodded pavement policeman Pretoria quickly reached remembered road Rosa Rosa's security police seemed seen shot shoulder side sitting slowly smiled someone sound Soweto speaking Special Branch stairs stopped storeroom straight sure talk tell Thandi Kunene There's thing trouble trying turned voice waited watching Weiz Weizmann's place wife Willem woman Wynand young Yudel asked Yudel heard Yudel knew Yudel looked Yudel saw Yudel thought Yudel told Yudel wondered Zulu
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Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective Christine Matzke,Susanne Muehleisen No preview available - 2006 |
Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective Christine Matzke,Susanne Muehleisen No preview available - 2006 |