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In an imagined African country, political ambition and competing loyalties test the possibilities and costs of a new national future.

Literary fiction

A young man leaves the countryside for Johannesburg, discovering the demands and disappointments hidden beneath the city's promise of gold.

Literary fiction

Boer migration and African resistance collide in a historical novel that follows the contested movement into South Africa's interior.

Historical fiction

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