Willem Anker’s fiercely powerful novel is a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed
By Willem Anker
Translated by Michiel Heyns
Michiel Heyns
Michiel Heyns grew up in various towns and cities all over South Africa, and studied at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cambridge
As well as a non-fiction book on the 19th-century novel and many critical essays, he has published nine novels, the latest of which is A Poor Season for Whales. He has produced several translations, two of which, Marlene van Niekerk’s The Way of the Women and Chris Barnard’s Bundu, were short-listed for the (then) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.