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Die vrou wat haar verkyker vergeet het - Marlene van Niekerk
soft cover, 153 pages, with some hand-written notes on the inside of the back page
ISBN: 9781798632970
This is a short-story collection by South African author Marlene van Niekerk, first published in 1992. The book includes a collection of imaginative and often satirical stories that explore human behaviour, perception, and the unexpected in everyday life. The title story, The Woman Who Forgot Her Binoculars, and others in the collection play with unusual situations and symbolic elements to probe obsession, limitations, and how we see the world. In the title story, a woman goes to a writers retreat but forgets her binoculars, a device symbolic of rational, distant observation. Without them, she lets go of analytical distance, and this change leads her into a deeper, almost mystical engagement with nature. She becomes a watcher and participant of birds and the environment around her, blurring the boundaries between inner experience and outer world. Through this, the story explores the limits of rationality, creative perception, and personal transformation.
