After an unexpected request from his father, Henry Knott returns to the Karoo farm on which he spent a fractured childhood. Painful memories force him to revisit a tragedy in which he was fatefully implicated. Henry has to come to terms with how this event has shaped his adult life, his marriage and the conflicted emotions he feels towards the place of his birth. The Land Within traces the deep connections between tragedy and love, regret and longing.
Alistair Morgan was born in Johannesburg in 1971. He lives and works in Cape Town. Has previously published Two short stories: ‘Icebergs’ and ‘Departure.’ Both appeared in the Paris Review-issues 183 (Winter, 2007) and 185 (Summer, 2008) respectively. In 2009 he also became the first non- American to win the Plimpton Prize. Alistair Morgan published his debut novel Sleeper’s Wake, with Penguin Books SA in August 2009.
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