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A powerful taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young optimistic and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present his ill-starred idealism cannot last.
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A powerful, taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.
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Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optism. Frank the disgruntled deputy is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restititution from the present. Reissue.
- 0857891723
- 9780857891723
- Damon Galgut
- 1 April 2011
- Atlantic Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 216
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