Another Country -- Karel Schoeman

Condition : Good.

First Edition, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap -  SA Fiction -  311pp. ISBN 9781856190497. Translated by David Schalkwyk from the Afrikaans edition

This is an exceptional book and speaks to my soul. It's set in the 1870s in Bloemfontein and follows a solitary Dutch man who comes to South Africa, like many other Europeans at the time, for health reasons. The dry air of the veld is regarded as the best climate for those suffering with Tuberculosis. 

It raises questions of class, colonialism, language, death and dying. Schoeman describes the Karoo in its most magical, solitary, infinite, beautiful alluring way. One of those quietly powerful and beautifully written books that wrestles with all the great questions without ever slighting the ordinary men and women who ask them. 

Just like the vastness of the Karoo, Schoeman's small tale is majestic and awe-inspiring.

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