Pohl's writing often focuses on the South African landscape, wildlife, and the history of the region. Given the author's other works, it is likely that Dawn to Dusk is a collection of anecdotes or lighthearted stories related to life in South Africa, rather than a novel with a single overarching plot.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe book is a work of historical fiction that vividly re-creates the final days of the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The story is told through several interwoven perspectives, including a successful lawyer who returns to her native country after a long absence and a group of assassins planning to kill the dictator
At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community.
The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.'Golding is quite simply the best living writer of the short novel in the English Language.' - The Times
Pauline Smith; HIE Dhlomo; HC Bosman; Can Themba; Dan Jacobson; Nadine Gordimer; Alec La Guma;Ahmed Essop;Mbulelo Mzamane; Christopher Hope; Njabulo Ndebele; Zoë Wicomb; Miriam Tlali; Maureen Isaacson; Brendan Cline; Chris van Wyk; Finuala Dowling; Mandla Langa; David Medalie; Ivan Vladislavic
This book tells the story of a challenging trek through contemporary Africa, following the footsteps of her illustrious Victorian ancestor, Sir Richard Glyn. Real Africana Literature.
