Ingrid Winterbach (Libros)

Ingrid Winterbach Libros

Ingrid Winterbach es una autora sudafricana cuyas contribuciones literarias se elaboran principalmente en afrikáans. Su escritura es reconocida por su sofisticación estilística y su profunda exploración de las complejas relaciones humanas y temas sociales. El trabajo de Winterbach ofrece una mirada impávida a la psique humana y las convenciones sociales, a menudo profundizando en cuestiones de identidad, memoria y la búsqueda de significado dentro de un paisaje poscolonial. Su prosa es rica y estratificada, exigiendo un lector perspicaz que aprecie los sutiles matices y la profundidad simbólica.

The shallows

268 páginas
10 horas de lectura

Painter Nick Steyn moves to the City Bowl in Cape Town after separating from his partner, Isabel. A young boarder moves in with Nick and they soon become friends. But one night she does not come home, and his attempts to trace her come to nothing. A few weeks later the prosperous artist Buks Verhoef makes an offer on Nick's house. Is there a connection between these evnts, and if so, could Nick's former friend, Victor Shoeman, the author of the outrageous novel The Shallows, have a hand in them?. A parallell narrative concerns a nameless Stellenbosch woman who is writing a monograph on the famous Olivier brothers. One day she witnesses the murder of Buks Verhoef in a coffee shop; soon thereafter a sinister man starts stalking her. Could this also be Victor Shoeman?"