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Köp båda 2 för 565 kr** 'THE WAY OF THE WOMEN combines the stark intensity of a remarkable death-bed chamber piece, which none the less contains humour, with a compendious sweep from 19th-century boomtime in the Cape to the Angolan war * GUARDIAN * ** 'Ambitious and loaded with a narrative energy you will not find - at the same pitch or in the same range - in the work of any of the big names in South African writing ... A masterpiece has arrived * South African SUNDAY TIMES * ** 'Fascinating and moving, this is, above all, a love story * Kate Saunders, THE TIMES * ** 'These are huge subjects ... Without a doubt a novel of ideas but also a very musical one, an 'act of writing * in which van Niekerk poetically breathes new life and new possibility into the country *
Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954 and grew up on a farm in the Caledon district of South Africa's Cape. She studied philosophy, languages and literature at the universities of Stellenbosch, Amsterdam and Witwatersrand, where she now lectures in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch.