Richard Mason

Who Killed Piet Barol? (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Cape Town, 1914. Where a person can be whoever they want to be . . .

Former tutor Piet Barol and singer Stacey Meadows are making a splash in colonial Cape Town. Styling themselves as the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Barol, they have been living by their wits - but as the world drifts towards war, their quest for comfort and riches has brought them close to bankruptcy. With creditors at their heels, their furniture business is imploding and only a major win will save them.

Stacey finds the ideal stooge: a mining magnate with a mansion to furnish. Piet enlists two Xhosa men to lead him into the magical forest of Gwadana, in search of a fabled tree. He needs precious wood, but he doesn't want to pay for it.

The Natives Land Act has just abolished property rights for the majority of black South Africans, and whole families have been ripped apart. As Piet's charm, charisma and appetite for risk lead him far beyond the safety of the privileged white world, he does not comprehend the enormous price of the lies he has told, nor where they will lead him . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474602365
• Artikelnr.: 45696121

Autorenporträt

Richard Mason is the author of The Drowning People (winner of Italy's Grinzane Cavour prize for Best First Novel), Us, Natural Elements, and History of a Pleasure Seeker. He's been long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Library Award, and short-listed for the Sunday Times Literary Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Mason has written for European editions of Vanity Fair; American, British, and Italian Vogue; the London Times, The Guardian , the Evening Standard, Tatler, and The New York Times. To write this book, Mason founded Project Lulutho, a center for green farming in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape, and spent a year living under canvas--learning the language and culture of the Xhosa people. Search Who Killed Piet Barol? on YouTube to watch the story of the creation of this novel. www.richardmason.org