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Toorberg

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In die wilde nagte of bedags as die son bloed uit ’n klip wil trek en ’n mens se gedagtes koorsig maal – dan loop waarheid en verdigsel, geskiedenis en toekoms, lewe en dood deurmekaar op Toorberg, erfgrond van die Moolmans.

Hiermee moet die magistraat rekening hou wanneer hy die dood kom ondersoek van klein Noag, ’n kind van die weemoed, wat nie heeltemal van dié aarde was nie. En daagliks kring die saak uit, verdiep dit totdat dit selfs die wese van die regspraak uitdaag. Daar word van die magistraat verwag om oor ’n hele stam te oordeel, oor die lewendes en die dodes. Hy moet elkeen se skuld bepaal en daarom almal se “sondes oopkrap”.

Maar die Moolmans is ’n familie wat “van die oerdae vir hul eie sondes leer sorg het”. Ouers sny kinders uit hul lewens, stoot hulle opsy as Stief-Moolmans-“weggooivelle” in die Stiefveld, of stedelinge wie se name nie meer oor hulle lippe kom nie. Die Moolmans vergewe nie. Nie as hul stambloed verraai word nie.
LanguageAfrikaans
PublisherTafelberg
Release dateJan 15, 2014
ISBN9780624068785
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Etienne van Heerden

Etienne van Heerden is in 1954 in Johannesburg gebore. Hy ontvang die Eugène Marais-prys vir sy kortverhaalbundel My Kubaan. In 1986 verskyn Toorberg, wat wyd bekroon word. Hy is ook bekend vir romans soos Die swye van Mario Salviati (2000), 30 nagte in Amsterdam (2008) en Klimtol (2013). Hy is professor in o. m. kreatiewe skryfwerk aan die UK.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Magistrate comes to the farm in a remote area of South Africa to investigate the death of a young boy that fell into a drilling hole. As he investigates and learns about the past and current generations of farmers, from the farms founder to the current inhabitants of the land, both in the core family and the illegitimate or scorned family branches, he paints a picture of life in rural South Africa at the time and how parental expectations and individual characters clashed and resulted in a complex environment full of resentment, racial and social separations.
    I liked the way the past generations were present in the story by way of their spirits. Each of them in turn was present at the site of the young boy's death and in showing up, lets us in on some of his history. As we learn what happened that day, the event is put into the context of the family history.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A child has died under mysterious circumstances on a rural Afrikans farm inhabited by two branches of the same family, the "legitimate" branch and the "dark" branch. A lonely magistrate is dispatched to investigate and rule on the death. He interviews various family members, each of whom relates his or her version of the facts. Secrets and unresolved issues from the past are exposed. There is even a little magical realism, as some of the narrators are ancestors long deceased. (However, I don't think the magical realism aspect of the book is prominent enough to discourage those who don't care for the genre to decline to read this book. Highly recommended.4 stars