BURIED TREASURE

221pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2023

Novel set in the fictitious town of Vivo. Due to his poor eyesight Mateus, who runs the cemetery, has been burying bodies in the wrong graves. Novo, his new apprentice, is determined to reunite the ghosts of Vivo with their names so they can know who they are and proceed to the afterlife.

Accountant Sven Axelrad was born in New Zealand and lives in Durban. Buried Treasure is his debut novel.