Mafeking Road Stories by Herman Charles Bosman Hardcover Book

Title: Mafeking Road Stories by Herman Charles Bosman Hardcover Book.
Author: Herman Charles Bosman.
Type: Africana Fiction.
Edition: Fifth Edition 1976.
Publisher: Human & Rousseau, Cape Town & Pretoria.
Year First Published: 1969.
Format: Hardcover Book with dust jacket.
Printed By: Printpak Cape, LTD, Epping.
Page Count: 166 pages.
Width: 14.0cm
Height: 24.5cm
Thickness: 1.7cm
Info: These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear- sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District. Leading oral tradition by the hand into a territory all his own, Bosman maps a world at once lucid and layered, distant yet powerfully familiar.
Herman Charles Bosman is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer. He studied the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain and developed a style emphasizing the use of satire.
He was born at Kuilsrivier, near Cape Town. While still young, his family moved to Johannesburg where he went to school at Jeppe Boys High School in Kensington. He was a contributor to the school magazine. When he was 16, he started writing amusing short stories for the Sunday Times.
Condition: Fair, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Tanning and foxing on front and end pages. Tanned pages within books first and last pages. Internal pages are good. Dust jacket is frayed and marked.
Price: R 65.00 Inc Vat.