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The little red chairs : a novel
Disgraced when her village's mysterious healer, an Eastern European immigrant whom she loved and begged to help her have a child, is arrested as a war criminal, Fidelma flees to England to take migrant work, only to confront her nemesis at a tribunal in The Hague.
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'It may have seemed personal but it wasn't': The Person(al) as Nation(al) in Post-Apartheid Literary Representations of Retribution
Crime fiction has experienced a boom in popularity in South Africa in recent years. While some critics argue over the high- or lowbrow status of the genre, a more fruitful approach may be to consider how fiction about crime addresses particular themes in order to negotiate contested ideas of nation-ness. This article will first assess how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the osmosis between creative non-fiction and crime fiction have laid the foundations for a discourse whereby personal narratives of justice and victimhood are transposed to a level of national significance. Narratives of revenge are a key route by which authors of crime fiction tackle a sense of unfulfilled justice. Violent crimes in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Deon Meyer's Devil's Peak are narrated from differing perspectives, portrayed variously as acts of disproportionate revenge or violently just retribution. In these novels, the characters impart wider significance to their own violence and victimhood, tying themselves to the failures of the TRC and the new nation's supposed inability to deliver justice. In Bitter Fruit, Disgrace, and Margie Oford's Daddy's Girl, sexual violence is portrayed as a weapon to right historic grievances. Contemporary crime fiction both reinforces and challenges popular misconceptions about rape, encouraging audiences to reassess notions regarding the post-colonial state. With familial metaphors for the nation prevalent in post-apartheid South Africa, narratives of intra-familial sexual violence highlight issues surrounding inter-generational responsibility and the recurrence of a violent past.
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The birdwatcher : a novel
Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on a murder investigation. He may be a murderer himself. He is partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly recruited to the Kent coast from London. Together they find the body, violently beaten, forced inside a wooden chest. Their suspect, Donnie Fraser, is a drifter from Northern Ireland. His presence in Kent disturbs William because he knew him as a boy. If the past is catching up with him, South wants to meet it head on. For even as he desperately investigates the connections, he knows there is no crime, however duplicitous or cruel, that can compare to the great lie of his childhood.
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Ben-Hur
One of the most famous of all classic stories, this exciting tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation is a must-have addition to any digital bookshelf. Specially formatted for today's e-readers, this version contains the full saga as writen by master author Lew Wallace.
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Death notice : a novel
\"An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Death Before Dishonor
From hip hop kingpin and #1 New York Times bestselling author 50 Cent comes a novel that dares to tell the truth about the Life--the lovers, the haters, the guns, the money, the highs, the lows--The Street, for real.
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Whatever it takes
They say before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. For James Mercer, the financial ruin of his family by the institutions they trusted can never be undone. It shattered everyone, leaving him with a burning need to right the wrongs they suffered. He will stop at nothing to recoup what they are owed. It's not theft, it's payback. Until his solo crusade falls foul of the very people he seeks to rob - the one per centers, the people who own the bulk of the world's wealth. Soon he is putting together a crew to carry out one last robbery, to undertake one last job. Success will restore his family's honour, but failure will destroy them forever. Packed with relentless action and the sort of riveting authenticity only Andy McNab can provide, Whatever it takes tells the story of one man's extraordinary pursuit of justice against devastating odds, a story as hard and real and controversial as any of today's headlines, which will show the world as it really is ...
The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill
A novel about Molly McGill and \"Margaret Kelly, [women] who participated in the government's 'Brides for Indians' program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for one thousand white women to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses. Mostly fallen women, the brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many fell in love with the Cheyenne spouses and had children with them--and became Cheyenne themselves\"-- Provided by publisher.
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