Crooked Seeds - Jennings, Karen

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her familys troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guiltfrom the Booker Prizelonglisted author of An Island. Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountains threaten to burn, and the queue for the water trucks grows ever longer. In her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper Deidre with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s? Is it true that he was building bombs as part of a terrorist plot?

Softcover. English. Karavan Press. 2024. ISBN: 9781776472628. 181 pp. Good. Book No: 2507174