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The crack

Radmann, Christopher, author

Overview

\"Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband in his new job as a plain-clothes policeman and specialist interrogator. Hektor-Jan heads off to work on New Year's Day, aware that he is unbearably close to a bloody drama about to unfold. As Janet's world tightens and threatens to fracture, she must look to her children and cling to the support of Alice, her black maid, and Solomon, her ever-faithful gardener. All too conscious of her own emotional fragility, Janet watches her mother slip into the folds of 'Old Timers' disease. And next door, the lurking, unfathomable Doug is up to no good. As the crack in the swimming pool widens, can Janet bridge the gaps that threaten them all? Written with tenderness and disquieting power, Christopher Radmann exposes a brutal centre that cannot hold -- and reveals how in apartheid South Africa, things must crack and fall apart\"--Amazon.com.

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Subject: Families South Africa Fiction. / Police South Africa Fiction. / South Africa Social conditions 1961-1994 Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781780743998, 1780743998, 9781780745282

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6118.A3337 C73 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE