DIE SLAGHUIS

230pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2019

A novel that begins in 1997 when a woman and her ex-brigadier husband leave Pretoria to live in a small village in the Eastern Cape where they set up a butchery. Twenty years later the butcher's daughter has taken over the business while her father lives in a shack in the backyard, consumed by gangrene and his violent past.

Cas Wepener is the author of the novels Johanna Syferfontein and Dubbelfoto.