Fathers and Fugitives

S J Naudé, Michiel Heyns

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English

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
01 April 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Daniel is a queer journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meagre. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly father, Daniel returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Following his father's death, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man's will: he will only inherit his half of his father's estate once he has spent time with Theon, a cousin whom he hasn't seen since they were boys, who lives on the old family farm in the Free State. Once there, Daniel discovers that the young son of the woman Theon lives with is seriously ill. With the conditions bearing on Daniel's inheritance shifting in real time, Theon and Daniel travel to Japan for an experimental cure and a voyage that will change their lives forever.

S J Naudé's masterful novel is many things at once: a literary page page-turner full of vivid, unexpected characters and surprising twists; a loving and at times shockingly raw portrayal of its protagonist's complex psyche; and a devastatingly subtle look into South Africa's fraught recent history.

By: S J Naudé
Translated by: Michiel Heyns
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781787705432
ISBN 10: 1787705439
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

S J Naudé is the author of two collections of short stories, The Alphabet of Birds and Mad Honey, and two novels, The Third Reel and Fathers and Fugitives. He is the winner of the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the kykNet-Rapport prize and is the only writer to win Hertzog Prize twice consecutively in its 100-year history. The Third Reel was shortlisted for the Sunday Times prize. His work has been published in Granta and other journals in the US, UK, Netherlands and Italy. Michiel Heyns is a South African author, translator and academic. He went to school in Thaba 'Nchu, Kimberley and Grahamstown, and later studied at the University of Stellenbosch and Cambridge University before serving as a professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch, from 1983 until 2003.

Reviews for Fathers and Fugitives

“Cool and intelligent, unsettling and deeply felt, Naudé’s voice is something new in South African writing.” * Damon Galgut, Booker Prize winning author of The Promise * “An astonishing and deeply moving novel. There seem to be no limits to Naude’s powers as a writer.” * Rapport (South Africa) *