Red Dog

A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voice

In the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally. Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight.

Red Dog is a brilliant, fiercely powerful novel – a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed.

Un roman brutal si brutal al frontierei sud-africane dintr-o noua voce literara majora In secolul al XVIII-lea, un urias strabate granita frontierei coloniei Cape. Coenraad de Buys este o legenda, un poligamist, un escroc si un mare vorbaret; un rebel care lupta cu sefii Xhosa impotriva boerilor si britanicilor; patriarhul acerb al unei familii extinse de rase mixte cu un adevarat trib de adepti; un dusman salbatic si un aliat loial.