Etienne van Heerden Knihy

Ingi Friedlander, a curator from the National Gallery at Cape Town, South Africa, goes to the remote mountain village of Yearsonend to buy a sculpture that has magically appeared overnight. Ingi soon discovers that the town is in the grip of gold fever for a trove that is buried somewhere nearby. She is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the town' s past and slowly befriends Mario Salviati, the deaf, dumb, blind Italian immigrant who holds the key to many of the town' s secrets. Salviati confides in no one until the day of his death, when he leaves a stone with the map inscribed in it for Ingi. In a surprising twist, Ingi leaves both her job and the search for the treasure to pursue her true love, painting. As she leaves Yearsonend, she casts out the window the rock with the secret of the hidden gold. While her presence in the town has brought together people who have long fought over race and money, there is a complex combination of doubt about the people overcoming their differences and the history of apartheid, and an exhilarating sense of freedom and self-discovery which Ingi' s persistent questions have brought to the townspeople.

Der in Johannesburg geborene Lyriker und Romancier (Jg. 1954) erzählt die mit Sagen, Legenden und Mythen der Einheimischen verwobene Geschichte einer Hottentotten- und Mischlingsfamilie in der Kapkolonie Südafrikas

After his heart bypass operation, former champion athlete, Christian Lemmer, needs to take stock. When a Cape Flats gang begins to target him, this becomes vitally important. Christian commutes between Johannesburg and Stellenbosch, where he returns at weekends to his troubled wife Christine and his confrontational son Siebert. But he also has a hideaway that no one knows about, a flat in Sea Point where his drug dealer meets him, and a Swazi prostitute becomes his confidante. And in Matjiesfontein, the staff of the n Matjiesfontein the staff of the Lord Milner Hotel and the local pigeon breeders are in a state of excitement with the approach of the Southern Cross Derby - the most important event in the Karoo's pigeon racing calendar. But other things are afoot in Matjiesfontein as well, things in which the lives of the Lemmers are soon to become involved, from the arrival of the Piss-Man to the disappearance of prodigy Snaartjie Windvogel who, it is said, bewitches her father's pigeons with her violin playing. The Lemmers come to the village to try to unravel one mystery, only to find themselves caught up in another.