Betrayal by Adriaan Van Dis

Betrayal by Adriaan Van Dis

Mulder, a Dutchman, returns at last to South Africa, his memories scattered by forty years and two strokes. Once he fought to free the country from apartheid; now he finds its people asking whether years of democracy have left them any better off. The village where his friend Donald - a comrade from his Fraternite days - lives is as segregated as ever: fishermen struggle to eke out a living and kids wreck their brains with crystal meth. Tensions are high: Donald wages a campaign against the local mayor; every day the whites add inches to their perimeter fences. So when Mulder and Donald attempt to help a young tik-head get clean against his will, their muddled good intentions can only be misunderstood...

'A terrific books' Toef Jaeger, Onze Wereld* Onze Wereld *
'His best novel to date' Frank van Dijl, De Tijd. * De Tijd *
'Hugely compelling' Jeroen Vullings, Vrij Nederland. * Vrij Nederland *
'More vivid, more profound and more humorous than could ever be captured in a thousand-word review. Adriaan van Dis's prose is scintillating' NRC Handelsblad. * NRC Handelsblad *

Adriaan Van Dis is a Dutch author with roots in what was the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). As a young man he studied Afrikaans at Amsterdam University. His novel My Father's War won a number of awards in the Netherlands and was translated into English by Ina Rilke. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Cees Nooteboom, W.F. Hermans, Tessa de Loo, Dai Sijie and Margriet de Moor.

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ISBN 13	9780857051844
ISBN 10	0857051849
Title	Betrayal
Author	Adriaan Van Dis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2013-08-01
Number of pages	272
Prizes	Short-listed for Libris Literatuur Prijs 2011
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