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Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
Anderkant omdraai is 'n versameling van Jan van Tonder se rubrieke
wat in Rapport Tydskrif verskyn het. Kort-kortverhale, essays,
sketse en anekdotes wissel mekaar af en bied 'n vermaaklike
leeservaring. Die leser van die rubrieke kan verwag om te lag en om
geroer te word. Van Tonder skryf oortuigend oor die nostalgie van
vroeer, en jukstaponeer dit met aktuele sake van vandag. Van Tonder
slaag weereens daarin om lewenswaarhede op 'n ongeforseerde en
verrassende vars manier oor te dra.
Liefdeskortverhale deur 27 bekende Afrikaanse skrywers om jou naweek op ’n romantiese noot mee te begin.
Laat die week en sy gewoel agter met dié stories uit die pen van Juanita Aggenbach, Bernette Bergenthuin, Henk Breytenbach, Malene Breytenbach, Alma Carstens, Alta Cloete, Leona Conradie, Trisa Hugo, Madelie Human, Jaco Jacobs, Anzil Kulsen, Kristel Loots, Cliffordene Norton, Susan Olivier, Didi Potgieter, Gerrit Rautenbach, Felicia Snyman, Cecilia Steyn, Dibi Symington, Louise van der Merwer, Santie van der Merwe, Nanette van Rooyen, Frenette van Wyk, Antoinette Venter, Louise Viljoen, Magdaleen Walters en Elsa Winckler.
Met Daar Doer in Duitswes roep Helm Jooste vervloe dae met
nostalgie en humor in herinnering. Hy vertel met selfspot van sy
eie ervarings in onder andere die ou Suidwes: vertellings wat jou
terselfdertyd laat lag en met heimwee en deernis vul. Kom dans op
maat van die Rooiduin Orkes tot rooidag; skater en bloos oor die
lywige Ant Maryntjie en die tandlose Toks – en droom saam met ’n
bobaasverteller oor die “se nou maars” en verspeelde kanse in
Jessica se blou oe.
Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first
volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book
Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning
and visceral new collection. In "Fine Just the Way It Is," she has
expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple
generations of Americans struggling through life in the West are a
ferocious, dazzling panorama of American folly and fate.
"Every ranch...had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she
drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys
smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of
life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad horses, deep
irrigation ditches, high trestles, tractor rollovers and 'unloaded'
guns. Her boy, too...The trip along this road was a roll call of
grief."
Proulx's characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation
but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood. Deeply
sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh
place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth
-- and leaves the reader in awe. The winner of two O. Henry Prizes,
Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection
of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her
exhilarating eye for detail and her dark sense of humor make this a
profoundly compelling collection.
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