Jo'Burg, Die Blues En 'N Swart Ford Thunderbird
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Jo'Burg, Die Blues En 'n Swart Ford Thunderbird
Vincent Pienaar
Medium Paperback
Jo'burg, die blues en 'n swart Ford Thunderbird is a title that reflects the non-conformity of the sixties. This novel does not yield to any convention. It paves its own unpretentious way, but with an authentic compassion for its characters, who, despite all the blows dealt to them by their working class existence, desperately strive towards a better life. The dreams and passions that unfold in this story are, as life prescribes, ignited by love. It is not only quiet Willie's love for the voluptuous, witty, streetwise Martie-Santjie, that causes a rush in his veins. It is especially his passion for another "bird" a black Vee Eight Ford Thunderbird with a silver eagle on the bonnet that drives him. Willie harbours an all-encompassing passion for his Thunderbird. It is a passion similar to that of a lover, but larger and more lasting than the love between people, because as Willie knows too well, people are treacherous. Willie and the road vulture, Piet Wieletjies, become rivals for the attention of Martie-Santjie, the girl who has the angelic ability to let the male species eat out of her hand and who also has the fatal ability to make them love-sick and drive them insane. Thus the story unfolds of three ordinary people whose lives, over the years, become intertwined through love, fate and a good dosage of slyness and sheer determination. Despite the unconventional mode of this novel and its apparent crude approach towards the realities of the working class, it is its compassion and honest pathos towards this milieu, that hits home. While the novel and characterisation is very funny, the story itself is deeply sad, and quiet Willie becomes a tragic character who lingers on in the mind of the reader. In between the humour and the pain, the honesty of the novel is pungent and the reader is forced to go behind the façade of ordinary people, to be confronted with their stories of dreams, love, disillusionment and pain the authentic stories of humanity.
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