OORKANT

469pp., paperback, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2025

ISBN: 9781067234775

Afrikaans novel. 

Shando, a young South African man from a poor neighbourhood haunted by feelings of guilt, end ups among the Selk'nam Indians of Tierra del Fuego. Can he finally make himself useful and help this threatened indigenous community of hunter-gatherers survive?

Pieter Haasbroek (b. 1943) is the author of six collections of short stories, including Heupvuur (Eugene Marais Prize), and the novels Lem, Die ander vennoot, Oemkontoe van die nasie and Kruispunt. He lives in Greyton.