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Homeland

Event Date 
21 June 2018

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Penguin Random House and The Book Lounge invite you to join us for the book launch of Homeland 

  • Date:   Thursday, 21 June 2018
  • Time:  17:30 for 18:30
  • Venue:  The Book Lounge
  • Address:  71 Roeland Street, Cnr Buitenkant & Roeland Street, Cape Town, 8001
  • RSVP:  The Book Lounge on 021 462 2425 or booklounge@gmail.com by Tuesday, 19 June

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About the Book:

Captain Albertus Beeslaar has had enough of the Kalahari. He is about to hand in his resignation, but before doing so he is sent into the heart of an ancient San community: an elder has died after being released from police custody and the San blame the police. The small town of Witdraai borders on the world-famous Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, where the last of the Kalahari San eke out a living. A violent attack on a German tourist has unsettled the whole town – a case that is rubbing up Beeslaar’s new colleague, Colonel Koekoes Mentoor, the wrong way. She wants to turn her back on Witdraai and the bad memories the place holds for her.

As the heat rises, all hell breaks loose: a policeman is murdered; deep-seated corruption is threatening a major land-restitution plan for the San; and a mysterious killer is prowling the red dunes. Amid all the controversy, Kytie Rooi, a cleaner at a luxury guesthouse in Upington and self-appointed protector of a strange street child, is fleeing into the deadly heat of the desert with her charge. In this world, places of safety are dangerously elusive.
 
Homeland   is the translation of the Number One Bestseller Tuisland,  Karin Brynard’s critically acclaimed and most ambitious novel to date.
 
>> Click here to read an extract from Homeland