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Crooked Seeds

by Karen Jennings
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789361135743
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pan Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan Books Ltd
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  • Pages: 200
  • Original Price: INR 499.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 17 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Mystery & Detective / General

"Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.'—Roddy Doyle Deidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is how she sees herself, and so she feels free of all obligations, moral and practical. Until the police take her back to her family home... In a Cape Town where water is rationed and has to be collected from trucks each day, with the consequences of apartheid and the ending of it still evident, Deidre lives from day to day in squalor - largely created by herself - borrowing, persuading, cadging her way from the water trucks to the bar, testing the tolerance and pity of everyone she knows. Then she is contacted by the police, and taken by a respectful constable to the house where she grew up and where she lost her leg in a shattering explosion while still young. Faced with what is found there, she has to accept the truth of her past, and of her older brother, her parents' golden boy. Then she must confront herself and her responsibility, and what it truly is to be a victim"

Karen Jennings is a South African author currently living in Brazil with her Brazilian husband. She holds Masters degrees in both English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD in English Literature from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her debut novel, Finding Soutbek, was shortlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for African Fiction. She has published a short story collection *Away from the Dead* and a poetry collection, *Space Inhabited by Echoes*, as well as a memoir, *Travels with my Father*. In 2019 she published the historical mining novel *Upturned Earth*. Her most recent novel, *An Island,* was written with support from the Miles Morland Foundation and was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

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