317pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2020

On the Cape’s West Coast a women cares for her dying father in a technologically advanced smart house. On the horizon is an oil tanker. A posthuman biohacker marries the ship and makes art about the honeymoon. And in Svalbard, a researcher’s lover disappears without trace.

Playwright, academic and writer Willem Anker (b. 1979) is the author of the novels Siegfried (2007) and Buys (2014), which won the University of Johannesburg Fiction Prize, the WA Hofmyer Prize, the kykNET-Rapport Prize and the Hertzog Prize. Translated into English as Red Dog, it was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He teaches creative writing at Stellenbosch University.

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