The Curator

✍ Scribed by Strauss, Jacques

• Book ID: 100667281
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0224101757

✦ Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize

It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976.

In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the family's black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the principal of a state-run school camp who lives nearby with his wife and their two sons, Werner and Marius. As Hendrik becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened, his wife worries about her neighbours, a poor white family whose malign influence on her son Werner is – she believes – making his behaviour inexplicably strange and hostile. One night another tragedy changes each of their lives, irrevocably.

Two decades later, Werner is living with his mother and invalid father in a small Pretoria flat. South Africa is a changed place. Werner holds a tedious job in the administration department of the local university and dreams of owning his own gallery. His father is bedridden, hovering on the edge of death, and...
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