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In Love's Place

ISBN 
9780143530985
Format 
Epub
Recommended Price 
R200.00
Published 
August 2013
About the book: 
After his heart bypass operation, former champion athlete Christian Lemmer needs to take stock. When a Cape Flats gang begins to target him, this becomes vitally important. 
 
Christian commutes between Johannesburg and Stellenbosch, where he returns at weekends to his troubled wife Christine and his confrontational son Siebert. But he also has a hideaway that no one knows about, a flat in Sea Point where his drug dealer meets him, and a Swazi prostitute becomes his confidante. 
 
And in Matjiesfontein the staff of the Lord Milner Hotel and the local pigeon breeders are in a state of excitement with the approach of the Southern Cross Derby – the most important event in the Karoo’s pigeon racing calendar.
 
But other things are afoot in Matjiesfontein as well, things in which the lives of the Lemmers are soon to become involved, from the arrival of the Piss-Man to the disappearance of prodigy Snaartjie Windvogel who, it is said, bewitches her father’s pigeons with her violin playing. The Lemmers come to the village to try to unravel one mystery, only to find themselves caught up in another.
 
 
Etienne van Heerden is an internationally acclaimed South African writer whose books have been published in thirteen languages. He is the founding editor of LitNet and Hofmeyr Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town. This novel was originally published in Afrikaans as In stede van die liefde.
 
 
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