Due South of Copenhagen

I could have guessed that one day Id hear something I shouldnt have on that party line. It was one thing listening to the gossip and the small talk that buzzed along its wires all the time, but it was something else to hear, on a hot Saturday morning before you started high school, that your best friends mother, the woman you wished you could somehow have married one day, was dead.

Dangerous boyhood memories surface when a letter brings news of Karls suicide.

Karl, Maxs enigmatic friend who taught him how to toughen up when hed first arrived in their small Lowveld town. Karl, whose beautiful mother became the object of Maxs raging teenage obsession.

Her tragic death brought a brutal end to the two boys friendship. But why exactly did Karl and his family leave town so soon thereafter?

As Max tries to make sense of what is transpiring, his complicity in the ills of the past begins to gnaw at him.

Due South of Copenhagen is Mark Winklers masterful tale of the friendships between men, small-town living during the height of South Africas Border War, and about what it takes to put the past to rest.

Paperback. English. Umuzi. 2020. Good Condition.