Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020
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.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 9781782274230
Number of pages: 432
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
A novel of serpentine, swashbuckling sentences that capture the mounting cruelty of the colonial project - International Booker Prize judges
Sensational... Anker writes like a talented demon - Antonia Senior, The Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month
One of the best antiheroes you will read this year leaps from the pages - The Times Best Summer Books
Ambitious... brings South Africa's bloody birth to life - Spectator
A powerful and stark historical novel... A twenty-first century story in the vein of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness... This staggeringly original blend of fact and fiction is savage but totally gripping - NB Magazine
It is the hottest piece of writing out here... a highly readable and relentless tale ... passionately nihilistic with inserts of great noir humour and even sometimes truly moving tenderness. - Marlene van Niekerk
The Afrikaans equivalent of the postmodern cowboys-and-Indians tales of Cormac McCarthy - Rian Malan
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