| Description |
216 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
A powerful, taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last |
| Subject |
Betrayal -- Fiction.
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Physicians -- Fiction.
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Rural hospitals -- Fiction.
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Smuggling -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111620
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780857891723 (paperback) |
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