(originally posted on November 9, 2005)
This debut novel (due out in January) has been getting some buzz since BEA, and it's completely justified and then some. Eva van Rensburg goes home to Africa after a 10 year absence to deal with the wreckage of her family history, her childhood home of Skinner's Drift and the aftermath of apartheid. The prose is so stripped down it's almost bare, but that nakedness gives the necessary power to keep reading, and stay haunted afterwards.
