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Andre Brink is a professor of English at the University of Cape Town.
A clapped-out crime reporter makes the perilous journey from modern-day Cape Town through the mountains to Devil's Valley. He finds an anachronistic, inbred community ruled by magic and superstition, in which women are subjugated, thieves and adulteresses executed, yet violent and horrific crimes go unpunished. The villagers are hiding a monstrous secret. As their buried history forces its way to the surface, the body count grows to Jacobean proportions. Skilfully mingling plain narrative and allegory, Brink shows how easily closed minds and societies can implode. (Kirkus UK)
