ONRUS OP STEYNSHOOP

295pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

Benna Potgieter, once a child prodigy, now works as a hairdresser in his mother's salon. When Fonny, his great lost love, unexpectedly comes back to town, his life takes a dramatic turn.

Ingrid Winterbach is the author of  Die Boek van Toeval en Toeverlaat (winner of the M-Net Prize, the W.A. Hofmeyr Prize and the University of Johannesburg Prize and translated as The Book of Happenstance); Voorouer. Pilgrim. Berg; Karolina Ferreira (M-Net Prize and Old Mutual Literature Prize); Buller se Plan (W.A.Hofmeyr Prize), Niggie (Hertzog Prize); Die Benederyk (M-Net Prize, translated as The Road of Excess) Vlakwater (translated as The Shallows); Die Aanspraak van Lewende Wesens (winner of the M-Net Award, the University of Johannesburg Literary Prize, the Hertzog Prize, the WA Hofmeyr Prize and the Great Afrikaans Novel Prize and translated as It Might Get Loud), and Die Troebel Tyd (translated as The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo).