Title statement

Dinge van 'n hond / S.P. Benjamin.

ISBN

9781485903314 (pbk.)

Publisher (Imprint)

Kaapstad : Penguin Random House Suid-Afrika (Edms.) Bpk, 2021.

Subject - Topical term

families |vFiction

Subject - Topical term

Interpersonal relations |vFiction

Subject - Topical term

Secrets and mysteries |vFiction

Other call number

AF BEN

Author - Personal Name

Benjamin, S. P.

Edition statement

First edition

Physical description

236 pages

Summary

At the end of each year, a celebration is held on Gatlek, Dawid Fourie’s farm—a kind of thanksgiving, you could say. Dawid rewards his workers for their hard work, and they show their gratitude in ways that aren’t often elaborated on afterward. It was during the night of the last big braai that things began to go wrong for Dawid and Gatlek. Jan-Vlok, Dawid’s son, now sits embittered without an inheritance farm. His father remains silent about Gatlek while filling his days making tombstones in his backyard. Then his eccentric Uncle Outa begins talking about the past, and no one can ignore him anymore. Then there’s Bettie Rondganger—a loner, a woman who wants to move on and forget her past. She gives herself to Jan-Vlok, but also to Klippies, her childhood friend who grew up on the workers’ side of the farm. After all, she and Klippies know the ethics of the garbage heaps where they now have to make a living. But what really happened that night on Gatlek? Dinge van ’n hond is a novel about forgetting, but also about remembering—and the realization that you can never truly escape your past.