VIN

264pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2021

Artist-curator Vin Verster gradually loses her grip on her involvement with art, her relationship with her archaeologist husband, and her ability to feel at peace in South Africa.  

The novel is accompanied by a website with images of the artworks and locations experienced by Vin on her travels.

"Vin bied aan die leser ’n uitdaging wat jou lei op ’n veelkantige en verrykende avontuur. Dit is tegelyk speurtog en ’n ontginning van die binnewêreld van ’n kunstenaar.” Kerneels Breytenbach

South African artist and curator Lien Botha was born in Gauteng in 1961. Her first novel, Wonderboom (2015), won the Jan Rabie Rapport-prize and the Eugène Marais prize.